Guenter (Wilhelm) Grass Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 46 pages of information about the life of Guenter (Wilhelm) Grass.

Guenter (Wilhelm) Grass Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 46 pages of information about the life of Guenter (Wilhelm) Grass.
This section contains 13,643 words
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Guenter (Wilhelm) Grass

Günter Grass is more than a writer; he is a phenomenon. Recognized in Germany by friend and foe alike as a formidable artistic and political force, abroad he is viewed almost as a personification of Germany and of postwar German literature. Yet, Grass has never pandered to his own popularity: what he writes, says, and does is just as likely to strike an open nerve as a responsive chord. His fame and his infamy are both by-products of his single-minded pursuit of his mission: to make Germany's Nazi experience a moral yardstick--a kind of ethical absolute zero--against which to measure all other movements and ideologies. Beginning his artistic career as a sculptor, he has become a writer of lyric poetry, drama, fiction, ballet libretti, and political tracts; he is also a painter, graphic designer, and etcher. Many of his ideas seem to have been worked out...

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