Günter Grass i protesty studenckie w 1968 roku
Günter Grass and Students’ Protests in 1968

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns Günter Grass’s attitude to students’ protests in 1968 against the background of the community of politically engaged writers. Günter Grass did not support the protestants, he criticised their postulates and tried to persuade them to act in moderation by mediating between themselves and the authorities. Revolutionary ideas, idealism and gradual radicalization of the protests – it all made Grass be fundamentally opposing to “unread revolution” as he called the protests. He was not, however, only the critic – he supported some of the postulates, e.g. reform of higher education, like the protestants he condemned the war in Vietnam and criticised Axel Springer’s concern. Grass’s attitude did not meet understanding neither in students’s (for whom he was not radical enough) nor in conservative part of the society. Grass found himself not in a very comfortable position among political fronts, remaining faithful to his beliefs and being a typical representative of generation of ’45, for whom war experience determined their outlook and political beliefs for whole life. Trans. A. Gierba

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