Günter Grass fades – Liberation

Günter Grass in Germany far more than the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999 – twenty-seven years after that of Heinrich Böll – and the international success of Drum his first novel (see page 5). The writer born in Danzig (German corridor Polish lands partly responsible for the outbreak of the Second World War) in 1927 and enlisted at age 15 to escape an authoritarian father and small -bourgeois had the good fortune of the Germans of his generation. “At 15, I wanted to kill my father with my dagger Hitler Youth in thought, words …