君特·格拉斯是德国著名作家,曾以小说《铁皮鼓》获得1999年诺贝尔文学奖。“历史从下面看”是格拉斯一生都在实践的信条。他选择了低人一等的侏儒视角去仰望历史、体悟社会,并始终保持着怀疑和批判的眼光,保持着作为一个作家自觉的良心和社会使命感。文学作品的艺术性和作家的历史感如何兼顾也许在格拉斯的小说中得到了一种解决。 Günter Grassis is a famous German writer who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel “Tin Drum”. “History from the bottom ” is Grasse’s creed in practice. He chose the inferior dwarf perspective to look up to history, understand the society, and always maintained a skeptical and critical view, maintaining a conscious conscience and social mission as a writer. The balance between the artistry of the literary works and the writer’s sense of history may be solved in Grasse’s novels.