THE FLOOD

Hochwasse

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Günter Grass

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This is a particular historical moment: it is the Germany of the 1950s, the post-war where the presence of the ruins is the result of a real world catastrophe and the need for reconstruction of the future. On this recent past and present, Günter Grass chose to express the metaphor. The flood or the flood, natural cataclysm ends up gaining the meaning of a true collective destiny where all are responsible and victims ...

 

Christine Zurbach