Goettingen (Germany) .- The posthumous work of Günter Grass Vonne Endlichkait was presented yesterday by the publisher Steidl, almost half a year after the death of German Literature Nobel Prize.
“I think that once again got something big,” said publisher Gerhard Steidl, during the presentation in the city of Goettingen, in central Germany.
Grass worked in the work entitled Vonne Endlichkait (written in colloquial German East and roughly translated as From the finiteness ) until days before dying on 13 April.
According to the publisher, the author of The Tin Drum created “with his latest work of art a great game of poetry, prose and illustration.”
The work of 176 pages is a collection of love letters, reflections, outbursts of jealousy, satire and moments of happiness in which he also alluded to the physical decay, death and the question of God .
“A moving and charming moments play”, said the president of the German Academy, Heinrich Detering.
The publisher will release a first printing of 50,000 copies will be from Friday bookstores. Helene, daughter of Grass, and held a first hearing in June of fragments of the work.
Grass was one of the most important figures in modern history, both for its decisive role in the global projection German literature after the war and its fiery political commitment and its many controversies, including his passage through the Nazi Waffen SS in adolescence.
Born October 16, 1927 in the Polish city of Gdansk today, Grass has already become an international celebrity in 1959 with his novel The Tin Drum , the first volume a trilogy that continued with The cat and mouse (1961) and Dog Years (1963).
For over half a century of career, the author left an extensive work that crossed genres as diverse as drama, opera, ballet pieces, aphorisms, essays and novels, along with sculptures, drawings and paintings.
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