You might say that Günter Grass passed the (almost) 70 years of his writing life in a struggle with the sausage-factory of history, ideology and - not least - fallible human memory itself. His fiction ...
In Crabwalk, his last fiction before he spilled his Waffen-SS beans, Günter Grass explained that “history, or, to be more precise, the history we Germans have repeatedly mucked up, is a clogged toilet ...
In Falling Ill (Farrar, Straus, Giroux), C.K. Williams takes his most personal and introspective journey as he faces a terminal cancer diagnosis. In these thoughtful, skillfully crafted poems, ...
Günter Grass 19272015 belonged to Group 47 from 1957 and became an internationally respected author of postwar German literature with his debut novel The Tin Drum 1959 His central motivation was the ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
From these opening lines, some readers might think that the 84-year-old German Nobel literature laureate is finally about to explain why he kept quiet for so long about his stint with the Nazi SS. But ...
During the war Grass volunteered for the German submarine service to “escape the confines of the parental home”, later becoming a Luftwaffen helper. At the age of 17 he was enrolled in the Waffen SS, ...
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