The ‘Grass’ may not always be green, like Günter reveals…
Grass is unapologetic and yet brings out remorse, the genius that he is with words, like an actor displaying exact emotions and feeding his ego as well… 
if only it weren’t likely to be perceived akin to George Bush mourning over dead Iraqis. Unconvincing as he is on more than one occasion in the narrative, and given the quantum of overwhelming censure his candour has drawn internationally, the Nobel laureate does live up to expectations when it comes to the prose itself. The graphic imagery of his formative years and the times of the war, merit special mention. In his brief tenure as a huckster or an impressionist after the war and his finally coming together with his family, one sees glimpses of the genius that later became a landmark in contemporary literature. For a man convicted of war crimes in the historic judgement of Nuremberg while still teenaged, who today lives an old man having seen eight decades, pungent truth and vitriolic pangs of conscience have undeniably caught pace.
Some just chuckle away this belated integrity as being ‘too late’ while others have lauded it. It is perhaps a matter of perspective that is at play here but what one cannot ignore are hidden, ethical and aesthetic verities screaming from between words, yearning to be heard. Be he, a victim of inner demons far too horrific to surmount or the fabulist that Grass risks relegation to, he chose to stand at a distance and allowed events to be dictated at his discretion. The reader is also at his own discretion…
if only it weren’t likely to be perceived akin to George Bush mourning over dead Iraqis. Unconvincing as he is on more than one occasion in the narrative, and given the quantum of overwhelming censure his candour has drawn internationally, the Nobel laureate does live up to expectations when it comes to the prose itself. The graphic imagery of his formative years and the times of the war, merit special mention. In his brief tenure as a huckster or an impressionist after the war and his finally coming together with his family, one sees glimpses of the genius that later became a landmark in contemporary literature. For a man convicted of war crimes in the historic judgement of Nuremberg while still teenaged, who today lives an old man having seen eight decades, pungent truth and vitriolic pangs of conscience have undeniably caught pace.Some just chuckle away this belated integrity as being ‘too late’ while others have lauded it. It is perhaps a matter of perspective that is at play here but what one cannot ignore are hidden, ethical and aesthetic verities screaming from between words, yearning to be heard. Be he, a victim of inner demons far too horrific to surmount or the fabulist that Grass risks relegation to, he chose to stand at a distance and allowed events to be dictated at his discretion. The reader is also at his own discretion…
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