Günter Grass: With Watercolors

In Portuguese. Hardcover, 210 pages, 31.6 x 25.2 x 2.3 cm. Editorial Notícias, 2002.

After decades of shades of grey, during which Günter Grass became an expert in the use of black and white, in drawing and engraving, in 1995, in a Danish forest, he began working with watercolours, which in the following years determined both his work as a painter and that of a writer. Trees give way to mushrooms, fish and everyday objects; landscapes to still landscapes - motifs that are here, for the first time, arranged in a multiple choice. In the watercolours of "Fundsachen für Nichtleser" ("Finds for Non-Readers") and "Mein Jahrhundert" ("My Century") are inscribed, on a wet background, the first verses of poems and the first lines of stories. The collection of watercolours is preceded by a preface, in which Günter Grass describes his path to colour, his carelessness with Pelican's gouaches as a child, the first watercolours of the 50s, the fascinating play of colour on the smooth trunks of beech trees, the reciprocal effect of color and text in "Mein Jahrhundert".