Dystopia Tendency Of GunterGraas Novels

Gunter Grass is considered as one of the most important German writers in the lastcentury. In September30，1999, Swedish Academy announced,“Gunter Grass awards theNobel prize for literature in1999.” His works reflect some of the most fundamental theme ofthis century including people’s suffering in the Nazi period, people’s hope and reconciliationof emotion. Describing the forgotten history through spicy and fantastic fable, in1959, hepublished The Tin Drum, which seems to make German literature have a new beginning afterthe destruction of German literature in the past several decades. It is no exaggeration to thinkthat The Tin Drum, in20th century will be the most far-reaching literary works. And in TheWinning of Eulogy it said “He is a fabulist and also a learned scholar. He is a sound recorderand also a proud monologist. He is a literary master and also creator of the satirical langue.”He brings the honor of German literary; meanwhile, he also attracts countless controversy.His novels, from the two dimensions of time and space, pay more attention to humansociety’s own existence. From the dimension of time, for the past, Glass first rethinks ignoblehistory on Germany history. Based on reality, Glass gives his full concern to Germany currentsituation. According to the future, Glass looks into the future and the fate of human beingswith pessimistic outlook. From the dimension of space, Glass’s novel has widely penetratedinto every field of human society.There are reflection and criticism in the field of politics, science and technology and themoral dimension of alienation of human nature. In the temporal and spatial dimension, He hasbeen concerning for history present and future of human beings. There are strikingresemblances between Gunter Glass novels and the dystopian novels, which show pessimisticdespair for human in politics, science and technology, and human nature and embody strikinganti-utopia complex. This paper mainly discusses the Gunter Glass anti-utopia complexperformance from three aspects.The first part expounds totalitarianism and political evil reflection criticized andintrospected by Glass, which produces the social reality significance from Glass to Nazicentralization of state power to the reason analysis.The second part interprets why Glass will produce doomsday complex and Glass’scriticism on modern science and technology from his novels reflecting Glass’s doomsdaycomplex.The third part analyzes Glass’s analysis and criticism of alienation on human naturethrough alienation of groups of children and adult world in his novels. The fourth part analyzes the children groups and reality world alienation and analysiscriticism of alienation on human nature of Gunter Grass...