Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since 1968 kind of putting a damper on things. But in Poland and Romania as well, a lot of people I spoke with this summer seemed to find the "Eternal Brotherhood With the Soviet Union" propaganda approach somewhat heavyhanded. A Polish student in Gdansk (known in history books as Danzig) told me a joke that is currently making the rounds among his friends. An orange is rolling on the Polish-Soviet border, and two border guards, one Russian and one Polish, find it simultaneously. The Pole claims that it is on the Polish side of the border, therefore...
...favorite recipe from Chef Grass (simmered tripe with caraway seeds) or a growling epithet on Hegel: "Thanks to his subtlety, every abuse of state power has to this day been explained as historically necessary." Another snail detour documents the diaspora of the Jews of Grass's native Danzig during World War II. Here the narration seems to match the sinister creeping pace of anti-Semitism in its early stages...
Game Plan. Is the world made up of nothing but "the violent and the righteous"? Are there no other snail lovers left? Just to make sure, Grass invents one, a "Dr. Doubt," a Danzig schoolteacher, who sits out World War II in a cellar, collecting snails and falling in love, among other activities. He says: "I know more now. Hesitation comes more easily." Grass's middle-aged snail wisdom might easily be mistaken for Doubt's. At 45, Grass is too wise to be possessed by any one credo. Yet Grass cannot stay in his cellar while history...
...does not seem a likely theme for a book about campaigning with Willy Brandt and fictional events in Danzig during the Third Reich--all wrapped up under the pretext of being an explanation to the author's children. But then the author does not look like at first a likely candidate for greatness either. There is a little bit of shaggy dog about his longish brown hair and moustache, and his burly build reminds one of his days as a stone cutter--he made grave stones, like little Oskar in The Tin Drum--and as a sculptor, before he began...
Rosovsky was born in the free city of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) in 1927 of Russian-Jewish parents...