Re: Günter Grass: the man who broke the silence

[Dave Monroe]

If y'all wanna send me some recommended reading ... STILL haven't read
my copy of the (relatively, now) recent retranslation of The Tin Drum,
have only read The Clown (?) by Boll, + The Goalie's Anxiety at the
Penalty Kick (Peter Handke, in the wake of finally getting a [VHS]
copy of the Wim Wenders adaptation thereof), so ... Musil's the Man
without Qualities, Mann's the Magic Mountain, Doblin's Berlin
Alexanderplatz (sort of; also, the film adaptation [sort of]; wish
someone'd translate his Tatsachenphantasie into English [see link
below--!!!]), Hesse's Steppenwolf, uh, Goethe's  The Sorrows of Young
Werther (can't recall if I started, much less finished, Elective
Affinities, but it keeps coming up for me, so ...), have Fontane's
Effi Briest (saw the adaptation, heard it was afvaorite of Beckett's
[?!; also, Mann), The Tales of Hoffman (also, the Pressburger./Powell
film, + the BFI book thereupon, but ....) ...

https://books.google.com/books?id=Lz_PaPZXZZIC&pg=PA226#v=onepage&q&f=false

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:10 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.)
>> -
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