Gdansk trilogy

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Günter Grass 2004

The Gdańsk trilogy includes the three novels The Tin Drum (1959), Katz und Maus (1961) and Dog Years (1963) by the author Günter Grass , who was born in Gdańsk , but which are related to events, characters and circumstances.

All three works are set in Gdansk and can be classified immediately before, during and shortly after the Second World War .

In Grass' novella Im Krebsgang (2002) the trilogy is continued in the present in that some characters known from the trilogy appear there and some events are mentioned.