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"The Tin Drum" is a novel written by Nobel Prize winner and German writer Günter Grass. It is the first part of his "Danzig Trilogy". In 1980, a film of the same name based on the novel was adapted for the screen and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. When the Swiss Academy of Literature awarded Grasse the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 1999, it said that "The Tin Drum is one of the most important works of world literature after World War II." The whole book consists of three parts and forty-six chapters. The author uses flashback techniques to allow the protagonist to narrate the events that occurred on the border of Germany and Poland and the Danzig area for more than half a century in the first-person "I" tone on two planes of time and space. The first plane is from 1952 to 1954, when the protagonist Oscar Matzerath squatted in a mental hospital and wrote his memories because he took responsibility for his crimes. The second plane is the content of Oscar's memories: he wrote from the wedding of his maternal grandparents in 1899 until he entered the hospital in 1952.

"The Crab Walk" is the late masterpiece of German writer Günter Grass. The novel is based on real history: In 1945, the German cruise ship "Gustloff" carrying more than 10,000 refugees and soldiers was sunk by the Soviet army, killing nearly 10,000 people, including about 4,000 children. The novel reveals the serious disasters brought by the war initiators to the people of the country. Tula, a pregnant woman on the ship, was rescued, and her son Paul was born on the night of the disaster. Mother and son fled to Germany. The elderly Tula told his grandson Conrad about the shipwreck and other experiences. Conrad developed extreme ideas, founded a neo-Nazi website, advocated racial hatred, and shot and killed netizens who pretended to be Jewish youths. The work explores the tragedy caused by the Nazis and the war, and analyzes the underlying reasons for the resurgence of right-wing racist ideas in Germany.

Günter Grass was a German writer and a plastic artist. This book is divided into two parts: "Literature Glass" and "Art Glass". "Literary Grass" includes his novels, plays, poems, essays, lectures, autobiographies and other works in various genres, trying to give readers an overview of Grass's literary creative style, including excerpts from novels such as "The Tin Drum", the drama "The Flood", the essay "My Teacher Döblin", the autobiography "Peeling the Onion", "Box Camera", etc. The "Art Grass" section includes the author's sketches, watercolors, sculptures and other fine art works. This book comprehensively displays Glass's achievements in the field of literature and art.