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For Grass, the snail with its slow, prudent pace, becomes the symbol true progess, the progress Grass and the tiredly ploding men of his party are fighting for.
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About the Author
Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass's first novel, The Tin Drum, is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
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Text: English, German (translation)
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