Günter Grass: the man who broke the silence

[Michel]

Fallada made a huge impression on me 30-odd years ago with Little Man, 
What Now, and a new Dutch translation last year confirmed the value of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Man,_What_Now%3F_(novel)
Michel.



Op 19-4-2015 18:10, rich schreef:
> 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 <mailto: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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