The Cambridge Companion to Günter Grass

by Edited by Stuart Taberner

• ISBN13: 9780521876704
• ISBN10: 0521876702
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Günter Grass is Germany's best-known and internationally most successful living author, from his first novel The Tin Drum to his recent controversial autobiography. He is known for his tireless social and political engagement with the issues that have shaped post-War Germany: the difficult legacy of the Nazi past, the Cold War and the arms race, environmentalism, unification and racism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999. This Companion offers the widest coverage of Grass's oeuvre across the range of media in which he works, including literature, television and visual arts. Throughout, there is particular emphasis on Grass's literary style, the creative personality which inhabits all his work, and the impact on his reputation of revelations about his early involvement with Nazism. The volume sets out, in a fresh and lively fashion, the fundamentals that students and readers need in order to understand Grass and his individual works.

Table of Contents

Chronology

Introduction

Biography as politics

Gnnter Grass's political rhetoric

The exploratory fictions of

Gnnter Grass and magical realism

Gnnter Grass's 'Danzig Quintet'

Gnnter Grass and gender

Authorial construction in Gnnter Grass's prose

Gnnter Grass's apocalyptic visions

Gnnter Grass and German unification

Gnnter Grass's Peeling the Onion

Gnnter Grass as poet

Gnnter Grass and art

Gnnter Grass as dramatist

Film adaptations of Gnnter Grass's prose work

Gnnter Grass and his contemporaries in East and West Stuart Parkes

Guide to further reading

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