‘Nach‑Vergangenheit’ as the new dimension of time and the meaning of seventeen‑year‑old – around poetology of doubts

Abstract

In his works of “Crabwalk” (2002), “Peeling the Onion” (2006) and “The Box” (2008) Günter Grass reflects on the problem of memory and the (im)possibility of precise remembering. He uses the time lag for the topics connected with the World War II and in this way he achieves a new perspective ‚Nach-Vergangenheit’. In addition to this, characters of the seventeen-year-olds, who are highly profiled in the whole work of Günter Grass have been analysed.