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The '''''Danzig Trilogy''''' ({{langx|de|Danziger Trilogie}}) is a series of [[novel]]s and novellas by [[Germans|German]] author [[Günter Grass]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Di Napoli |first1=Thomas |title=In Quest of the Messiah: A Study of the Christ Figure in 'The Danzig Trilogy' of  Günter Grass |journal=The Centennial Review |date=1980 |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=25-42 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23740371}}</ref> The trilogy focuses on the [[interwar]] and [[World War II|wartime]] period in the [[Free City of Danzig]] (now [[Gdańsk]], [[Poland]]). 

The three books in the [[trilogy]] are:
*''[[The Tin Drum]]'' (''Die Blechtrommel''), published in 1959
*''[[Cat and Mouse (novella)|Cat and Mouse]]'' (''Katz und Maus''), published in 1961
*''[[Dog Years (novel)|Dog Years]]'' (''Hundejahre''), published in 1963

John Reddick was the first person to explicitly identify the three books as a trilogy and to refer to it as the Danzig Trilogy.<ref name="mews">{{cite book |last1=Mews |first1=Siegfried |title=Günter Grass and His Critics: From 'The Tin Drum' to 'Crabwalk' |date=2008 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |pages=92–100 |chapter=Danziger Trilogie / The Danzig Trilogy}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Reddick |first1=John |title=The Danzig Trilogy of Gunter Grass : A Study of the Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years |date=1975 |publisher=Harcourt |isbn=9780151238156}}</ref> German publisher Luchterhand re-issued the three novels under the overall heading ''Danziger Trilogie'' in 1980. In 1987, [[Harcourt Brace Jovanovich]] published the first US edition of the entire trilogy under this name.<ref name="mews" />

The trilogy is sometimes seen as part of a larger pentology that includes the later works ''Der Butt'' (1977) and ''Die Rättin'' (1986). An alternative interpretation extends the trilogy to a sextet by the addition of ''Der Butt'', ''Unkenrufe'' (1992), and ''Im Krebsgang'' (2002). Publisher Steidl advertised these six books as ''Das Danzig-Sextett'' in 2006.<ref name="mews" />  

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