On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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 Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 6:21 am Post subject: Gunter Grass is dead |
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| Günter Grass wrote more than 30 plays, novels, books of poems, essays and memoirs. He was also a visual artist and sculptor. He won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died of undisclosed causes in the German town of Lübeck, his publisher, Steidl Verlag, confirmed. He was 87 years old. |
I generally avoid fiction, so I never read anything by him. I remember the film of The Tin Drim being banned in Ontario when it came out, and it was also controversial in my home province. Years later, when I actually watched the film, I found it somewhat meandering and boring.
Other than that, I mostly remember Grass for his late-in-life revelations about his youthful involvement with Nazism. Probably unremarkable for a German of his age, but noteworthy I guess because he had long portrayed himself a a staunch left-wing opponent of fascism.
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