The paper analyses the complex interplay of travelling, writing, and reading in Günter Grass’ ‚Was nicht geschrieben wurde‘ – a 2015 ballad, published posthumously, on Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose. In text, narrator takes role biographer, condensing life story ambiguous political figure Bose into mere 12 pages. Biographical writing inevitably implies intertextual procedures. osten...

In this scientific article, it is assumed that the literary works of Nobel Prize laureate and German national poet Günter Grass are characterized by romantic features. For reason, novel Ein weites Feld (“A Wide Field”) fairy tale Der goldene Topf (“The Golden Pot”) E.T.A. Hoffmann examined in terms their similarities differences. It noteworthy has so far only been associated with relation to hi...