German novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature winner, author of one of the most stirring and challenging books of the 20th century - Günter Grass is dead.
I read the The Tin Drum when I was a teenager, after being hooked on the movie (starring the odd and shouty Oskar who can break glass with his voice). We rewatched it earlier this year, and got excited all over again. This article is a brilliant read: The Tin Drum summarised the 20th century in three words - it was written on the 50th anniversary of the novel's publication.
Barbaric, mystical, bored: here is the last century in summation. A schizophrenic, self-mutilating era in which man flew higher than was dreamed possible and plumbed depths unimaginable; slaughter beyond measure coupled with advances beyond comprehension; collective insanity and individual rationality; atavistic passions and detached irony; terror and humour.
Read him if you haven't - his writing is utterly original.
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- Günter Grass, Nobel-winning German novelist, dies aged 87 The Guardian
Literature Laureate Günter Grass dies at the age of 87. Nobel Lecture "To Be Continued ..." http://t.co/DxWHUuWehV pic.twitter.com/0ajz8YorkE
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) April 13, 2015
Late Nobel Laureate Günter Grass and his wife take to the dance floor at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 1999: pic.twitter.com/tQ6OeFWm5A
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) April 13, 2015
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