Bang the tin drum slowly
Does it matter that Nobel laureate Günter Grass was a member of the Waffen SS in his youth? No. It was a different time and a different place. And his life and his work speak for themselves. He is an extraordinary novelist, certainly one of the greatest of the past fifty years, a humanist, a man of peace.
But it's an interesting story nonetheless -- and, as he himself put it, "[i]t had to come out, finally". More here.
(And now, if you haven't yet, go read The Tin Drum.)
But it's an interesting story nonetheless -- and, as he himself put it, "[i]t had to come out, finally". More here.
(And now, if you haven't yet, go read The Tin Drum.)
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
12:40 AM
1 Comments:
Au contraire. It matters. How it matters can be argued on a variety of levels, not the least of which is how the later "life and work speak for themselves," have at minimum a grey shadow penumbra previously unadmitted.
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