Grass - Writer against oblivion

Günter Grass, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, is undoubtedly popular and influential in world literature. The richly illustrated biography introduces the reader to the life path and “biography” of the works, introducing the versatile artist who incorporates all means of expression - be it novel, poem, engraving or graphics: for the same purpose of taking up the fight against historical repression. and against oblivion. He himself testifies to this: "I am accustomed ... to always change disciplines out of hobby and necessity in my work, to go back and forth between the manuscript on the desk and the drawings attached to the easel to hit the cold needle from the seductive etching to perfection. to subjugate myself to the radical distraction of the lyric after the verbal prose of the narrator, to revise the poem described in a drawing, to cleanse myself in I come up with a conspiracy who then, in one situation or another, slowly begin to speak and act-guiltily disperse in the epic landscape, I go further: this alternation of artistic disciplines draws from one and the same inkwell. "