Die Nostalgie des Nicht-Seins in Günter Grass »Die Blechtrommel«
The Nostalgia of Non-Being in Günter Grass' »The Tin Drum«

Summary/Abstract: Oskar Matzerath’s hiding strategies, the main character of the novel ‘The Tin Drum’ by Günter Grass, reveal the fact, that the utopian non-existence-status of a person can be spatially localized. In this interpretation hiding rituals and strategies are more than plain childhood games and represent both a way to elude reality and also a manifestation of the nostalgia for the non-existence. The research on such experiences like the nostalgia for the non-existence can be traced back to the studies on the trauma of birth, made by the psychoanalyst Otto Rank.

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