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The Günter Grass affair fuels debate

The revelation by German writer Günter Grass ten days ago that he joined the Waffen SS at the end of the Second World War continues to arouse reactions. The European print media have covered them widely, giving space to Grass's supporters and to those who condemn him.

Le Figaro - Francia

"Sixty years of lies, just show how it is possible to be a great artist and greatly immoral," thunders French essayist Guy Sorman about Günter Grass. "In this affair, which is primarily German, if the artist is guilty, he is neither more nor less so than his readership and the idolatrous media ... To those, within and without Germany, who today confess their short-sightedness and errors of judgement and attempt to justify them, let us remember that it was possible not to wallow in the fetishism of Grass. ... We guard too much against the democratically elected politician because we see him coming his face plain to see. We do not guard enough, on the other hand, against the artist when his talent disguises him, and especially when that talent is great. We can never be distrustful enough of magicians made up as moralists." (21/08/2006)

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Rzeczpospolita - Polonia

Fourteen Polish writers including Wislawa Szymborska, Stefan Chwin and Pawel Huelle have published an open letter in which they defend Günter Grass. "Grass's confession is a demonstration of courage, and illustrates the great tragedy of a person who admits that he has always perceived his guilt as a shameful thing. We are witnessing how his admission is being exploited by certain Polish politicians. We strongly object to the tragedy of this novelist being used for political games. We cannot allow politicians to play with people's destinies. We regard Grass's literary work and social commitment as efforts to compensate for his mistakes. We cannot and will not forget Günter Grass's friendship and the great services he has done Poland." (21/08/2006)

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The Guardian - Gran Bretaña

British writer John Berger fails to understand the "macabre denunciations" being levelled today against Günter Grass. "About him as a man and about his great work as a writer, they totally miss the point, and might be dismissed as laughable, but, as an index of a certain recent moral climate in Europe, they are troubling. They are an example of moral judgments made in a carefully constructed vacuum of experience. They are what is left after the emptying out of lived experience, and they are a strident denial of what we know in our bones to be real ... The righteous moralists are proposing that Grass should renounce all the honours that his life's work has received. Their proposition only shows that, by systematically refusing to acknowledge his experience, they have forgotten what honour consists of. He has not." (21/08/2006)

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La Libre Belgique - Bélgica

Jean-Luc De Meulemeester, professor at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), analyses the revelations of Günter Grass in the light of the history of his home town, Danzig. "It is hard to level accusations at a teenager indoctrinated by totalitarian system and living in a society which, for specific historical reasons, had embraced the Nazi cause more radically, probably, than many German non-border regions. This commitment does, however, show how deeply many were committed, and until the final hour ... His very German destiny illustrates two things: the most perverted ideologies can seduce even souls with potential for good and creativity. And fortunately it is also possible to be cured of the disease, individually and collectively." (21/08/2006)

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