Günter Grass: the man who broke the silence

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

On 19.04.2015 05:13, Dave Monroe wrote:

> http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/18/gunter-grass-tributes-man-broke-silence
>

 > Most German novelists look southwards, like Thomas Mann, gazing 
towards Bavaria, Italy and the biblical lands. Grass looks eastwards, 
and it’s a cold wind he braces himself against.<

Hans Henny Jahnn looks northwards, and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann looks 
westwards ...

None of those statements, discussing the supposed uniqueness of Grass 
for German postwar literature, mentions writers like Arno Schmidt or 
Wolfgang Koeppen ( - whose 'Der Tod in Rom' with the Blicero-like SS-man 
Judejahn was published years before the 'Blechtrommel').  Whom they 
mention is, of course, Heinrich Böll. A more likable guy than Grass, but 
certainly not a great writer.

(Regarding the moral issue: You cannot teach your nation on a weekly 
basis for decades and then come around the corner with the facts about 
your own share of evil.)
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