From a snail's diary

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From the diary of a snail is a work by Günter Grass that was first published in 1972.

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Grass describes his engagement in the election campaign for the SPD from 1969 to 1972, especially for Willy Brandt and his work in Group 47 . This political stance was very unusual at the time. The diary, though fictional, portrays actual events.

The book begins with Gustav Heinemann's election as Federal President in 1969. Among other things, Grass draws comparisons to the political events of his time in Danzig in 1930. At that time, the German nationalists were dependent on votes from the NSDAP. This is compared to the election of Heinemann in the third ballot for Federal President, in which the Union parties together with the right-wing extremist NPD voted against Heinemann. From the diary of a snail closes with the election of Willy Brandt as Federal Chancellor.

expenditure

  • Günter Grass: From a snail's diary. Neuwied, Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1972.
  • Günter Grass: From a snail's diary. Hamburg, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 1974. (Rororo No. 1751). ISBN 3499117517
  • Günter Grass: From a snail's diary: A literary diary by Günter Grass during the Bundestag election campaign in 1969. With retrospectives and reflections on the past and present. Frankfurt, Luchterhand Collection 1989. ISBN 3630613101

literature

  • Cory, Mark E. Cory: Sisyphus and the Snail: Metaphors for the Political Process in Günter Grass “From the diary of a snail” and “Head births or the Germans die out”. German Studies Review (1983): pp. 519-533.
  • Hanspeter Brode: Communication structure and narrative position in the novels of Günter Grass The Tin Drum, From the Diary of a Snail, The Butt . Germanic-Romanic monthly journal (1980): pp. 438-450.
  • Ann L. Mason: The Artist and Politics in Günter Grass' From The Diary Of A Snail. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 51.2 (1976): pp. 105-120.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Grass in Petri Liukkonen's Authors Calendar, 2008, accessed on September 22, 2016