Re: Günter Grass: the man who broke the silence

[rich]

a late discovery for me but Hans Fallada really impressed me. Every Man
Dies Alone, in particular. another man with a complicated history

i see the goebbels family wants royalties from publisher of Peter
Longerich's new bio [in English] of Joseph Goebbels. expecting more from
this one than his previous bio of Himmler which i still required reading
but just like the man himself it gets bogged down in bureaucratic details
and tends to the dull. more to report on Goebbels and we have the diaries.
cant imagine what family is thinking

rich

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 2:57 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> 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.)
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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