The Life and Work of Gunter Grass: Literature, History, Politics

Preece, J.

This book traces the career of the most widely read and influential German novelist in the second half of the Twentieth-century. It shows in particular how his experiences as a teenage Nazi shaped his thinking, both in his novels and his role as critic and campaigner, from The Tin Drum (1959), his most famous novel, to My Century (1999), from his public protest against the building of the Berlin Wall (1961) to his diatribes against Helmut Kohl in the late 1990s. This new paperback edition includes new material on his last two books, My Century and Crabwalk including a revised Bibliography and Chronology.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-12-18

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781403916082

DOI: 10.1057/9780230286603

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 243