Günter Grass

Die Blechtrommel

1959 · Günter Grass

Die Blechtrommel is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first in his Danziger Trilogie. The story is told in the first person by Oskar Matzerath, a…

Cat and Mouse

1961 · Günter Grass

Cat and Mouse is a 1961 novella by German writer Günter Grass, part of the Danzig Trilogy and the sequel to The Tin Drum. It follows Joachim Mahlke,…

Hundejahre

1963 · Günter Grass

Dog Years is a novel by Gunter Grass, first published in Germany in 1963; its English translation, by Ralph Manheim, appeared in 1965. It is the…

Katz und Maus

1963 · Günter Grass

The second book in the "Danzig trilogy," following The Tin Drum. A novella focusing on adolescent boys in Danzig (now Gdansk) from 1939 to 1944,…

Das Lehrstück

1972 · Reiner Steinweg

Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke

1973 · Günter Grass

Described as probably the most autobiographical of the author's novels, this book balances the agonizing history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with…

The Flounder

1977 · Günter Grass

A 1977 novel by Günter Grass is based loosely on Grimm's "The Fisherman and His Wife." The story takes place over nine months as the narrator's wife…

Das Treffen in Telgte

1979 · Günter Grass

This 1979 novel by Gunter Grass imagines a 1647 gathering of poets from all parts of Germany at the pilgrimage town of Telgte, near the end of the…

Faktizität und Geltung

1992 · Jürgen Habermas

Unkenrufe

1992 · Günter Grass

In this 1992 novel by Günter Grass, a couple from Gdansk devises a unique business idea: selling cemetery plots in Gdansk to Germans who were exiled…