Günter Grass / Julian Preece.

By:

Preece, Julian

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781780239019
1780239017

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

838/.91409 23

LOC classification:

PT2613.R338 Z7738 2018

Contents:

Prologue : many-sided man -- Fram Danzig to Paris, 1927-59 : living The tin drum -- Art and violence in the early fiction -- Public uses of fame : Willy Brandt and the SPD -- Back to the future, forward to the past -- Crying wolf in "Orwell's decade"? -- Learning to love the Berlin Republic : Too far afield -- The new nation is me -- The culmination of project self -- Epilogue : poetry and death.

Summary: "Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain bestsellers across the world. The Tin Drum was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1979 and the memoir Peeling the Onion in 2006 astounded readers by revealing that Grass had been drafted into the most criminal component of the Nazi war machine, the Waffen SS, in the closing months of the Second World War. He wrote memorably about the student movement, feminism and German reunification, and was a key influence on magic realist authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie, as well as the popular novelist John Irving. Grass redefined the role of l̀iterary commitment', campaigning as a citizen for the German Social Democrats and helping the anti-Nazi Willy Brandt become Chancellor in 1969. Gunter Grass is the first biographical study in English of this Nobel Prize-winning writer. Julian Preece introduces Grass's key works and chronicles his interaction with major figures from literary and public life, including Chancellor Helmut Kohl and co-founder of the Red Army Faction Ulrike Meinhof, and places his fiction and public campaigning in the context of Cold War European politics and post-unification Germany."-- Provided by publisher.

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Title notes ( 3 )

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	PT2613 .R338 Z7738 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001453421

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-220).

"Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain bestsellers across the world. The Tin Drum was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1979 and the memoir Peeling the Onion in 2006 astounded readers by revealing that Grass had been drafted into the most criminal component of the Nazi war machine, the Waffen SS, in the closing months of the Second World War. He wrote memorably about the student movement, feminism and German reunification, and was a key influence on magic realist authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie, as well as the popular novelist John Irving. Grass redefined the role of l̀iterary commitment', campaigning as a citizen for the German Social Democrats and helping the anti-Nazi Willy Brandt become Chancellor in 1969. Gunter Grass is the first biographical study in English of this Nobel Prize-winning writer. Julian Preece introduces Grass's key works and chronicles his interaction with major figures from literary and public life, including Chancellor Helmut Kohl and co-founder of the Red Army Faction Ulrike Meinhof, and places his fiction and public campaigning in the context of Cold War European politics and post-unification Germany."-- Provided by publisher.