Danzig Trilogy

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Three novels by Günter Grass (published 1959–1963)

The Danzig Trilogy (German: Danziger Trilogie) is a series of novels and novellas by German author Günter Grass.[1] The trilogy focuses on the interwar and wartime period in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland).

The three books in the trilogy are:

* The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), published in 1959
* Cat and Mouse (Katz und Maus), published in 1961
* Dog Years (Hundejahre), published in 1963

John Reddick was the first person to explicitly identify the three books as a trilogy and to refer to it as the Danzig Trilogy.[2][3] German publisher Luchterhand re-issued the three novels under the overall heading Danziger Trilogie in 1980. In 1987, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich published the first US edition of the entire trilogy under this name.[2]

The trilogy is sometimes seen as part of a larger pentology that includes the later works Der Butt (1977) and Die Rättin (1986). An alternative interpretation extends the trilogy to a sextet by the addition of Der Butt, Unkenrufe (1992), and Im Krebsgang (2002). Publisher Steidl advertised these six books as Das Danzig-Sextett in 2006.[2]

## References

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1. ^ Di Napoli, Thomas (1980). "In Quest of the Messiah: A Study of the Christ Figure in 'The Danzig Trilogy' of Günter Grass". The Centennial Review. 24 (1): 25–42.
2. ^ a b c Mews, Siegfried (2008). "Danziger Trilogie / The Danzig Trilogy". Günter Grass and His Critics: From 'The Tin Drum' to 'Crabwalk'. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 92–100.
3. ^ Reddick, John (1975). The Danzig Trilogy of Gunter Grass : A Study of the Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years. Harcourt. ISBN 9780151238156.

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Prose|

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* The Tin Drum (1959)
* Cat and Mouse (1961)
* Dog Years (1963)

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Others|

* Local Anaesthetic (1969)
* The Flounder (1977)
* The Meeting at Telgte (1979)
* The Rat (1986)
* The Call of the Toad (1992)
* My Century (1999)
* Crabwalk (2002)
* Peeling the Onion (2006)
* The Box (2008)

Poetry|

* "What Must Be Said" (2012)

Plays|

* The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (1966)

Adaptations|

* Cat and Mouse (1967)
* The Tin Drum (1979)
* The Call of the Toad (2005)

Authority control databases

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* VIAF

National|

* Germany

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