Posted on 08/17/2006 10:56:35 AM PDT by ritt
Many authors of fiction are not content to create their imaginary worlds for our entertainment. After all, they are 'artists', striving for higher truths. They like to pretend that they possess superior moral wisdom and understanding of the real world. Unlike most of us, their falsehoods, if skillfully and entertainingly rendered, can win them acclaim and sometimes Nobel Prizes. Doesn’t their creativity make them special? Well actually, no...
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I believe Gunther Grass is a nice chap in privacy. By all means, he also is a person with an astounding capacity for portraying what he understands to be prominent as well as underlying features of the social/cultural reality around him.
Yet, when I hear the comments concerning his views on capitalism and german reunification intelligent people with substantial insights into these matters (like close friends of my own family in Eastern Germany), I can't help but getting the impression of an old, completely disorientated european intellectual.
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