Language:
English
Year of publication:
1985
Titel der Quelle:
Danzig, between East and West
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1985) 95-108
Keywords:
Grass, Günter,
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German literature 20th century
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Jews Fiction
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Jews Fiction
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Fiction
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Gdańsk (Poland)
Abstract:
Describes the figure of Sigismund Markus, the sympathetic Jewish shopkeeper in German-occupied Danzig, who commits suicide when his shop is destroyed on "Kristallnacht" in Grass’s novel "The Tin Drum". States that Grass works both with and against anti-Jewish stereotypes. Markus’s story is a parable of the failure of German Jews to assimilate, and the loss that Germany has sustained by rejecting and destroying the Jews.
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