The life and work of Günter Grass : literature, history, politics / Julian Preece.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preece, Julian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grass, Günter, 1927-2015.

Grass, Günter.

Authors, German--20th century--Biography.

Authors, German.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 222 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

This book traces the career of the most widely read and influential German novelist in the second half of the 20th 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-216) and index.

ISBN:

033379303X

OCLC:

44026401