Günter Grass

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born

October 16, 1927

gender

male

place of birth

Danzig, Germany

genre

Literature & Fiction

influences

Bocaccio, François Rabelais, Grimmelshausen, Cervantès, Voltaire, Denis Diderot Laurence Sterne, Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Trakl, Ivan Goncharov, Theodor Fontane, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka, Alfred Döblin, Albert Camus, the Nouveau Roman, Vladimir Nabokov

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Günter Wilhelm Grass (born October 16, 1927) is a Nobel Prize-winning German author, commended for being an author "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history." He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). Since 1945, he has lived in (the now former) West Germany, but in his fiction he frequently returns to the Danzig of his childhood. He is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum, a key text in European magic realism. His works frequently have a strong (left wing, socialist) political dimension, and Grass has been an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. In 2006, Grass caused a controversy with his belated disclosure of Waffen-SS service during the final months...more

books by Günter Grass

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avg rating: 3.91 | 2706 ratings | 148 distinct works

	The Tin Drum (Paperback) by Günter Grass avg rating 4.10 — 1034 ratings — published 1959 36 editions	my rating:
	Crabwalk (Paperback) by Günter Grass avg rating 3.55 — 93 ratings — published 2004 13 editions	my rating:
	My Century (Paperback) by Günter Grass avg rating 3.39 — 82 ratings — published 2000 15 editions	my rating:
	Peeling the Onion (Hardcover) by Günter Grass avg rating 3.86 — 64 ratings — published 2007 11 editions	my rating:
	موش و گربه by Günter Grass, Günter Grass avg rating 3.70 — 46 ratings — published 1384	my rating:
	Local Anaesthetic (Paperback) by Günter Grass avg rating 3.33 — 40 ratings — published 1989 6 editions	my rating:
	Katz Und Maus (Paperback) by Günter Grass avg rating 3.62 — 34 ratings — published 1961 28 editions	my rating:
	The Rat (Paperback) by Günter Grass avg rating 3.34 — 29 ratings — published 1989 6 editions	my rating:
	Headbirths: Or the Germans Are Dying Out (Paperback) by Günter Grass avg rating 3.38 — 21 ratings — published 1990 6 editions	my rating:
	Too Far Afield (Paperback) by Günter Grass avg rating 3.35 — 20 ratings — published 1995 6 editions	my rating:

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quotes by Günter Grass

"Eles não podem agir de outra maneira, os senhores da criação. O privilégio da criação lhes é irrenunciável. Nós, mulheres, temos que ser criaturas, sim, e criaturas perfeitas. Sejamos agradecidas aos cavaleiros suecos, principalmente ao fatídico Axel, por terem desequilibrado tão artisticamente as faculdades da menina Agnes. As mulheres levemente desequilibradas se qualificam como musas excelentes."
— Günter Grass (The Flounder (Helen & Kurt Wolff Book))

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