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100 1 _aPreece, Julian,
245 1 0 _aGünter Grass /
_cJulian Preece.
264 1 _aLondon, UK :
_bReaktion Books Ltd,
_c2018.
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a223 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
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336 _astill image
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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490 1 _aCritical lives
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 198-220).
505 0 _aPrologue : 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.
520 _a"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."--
_cProvided by publisher.
600 1 0 _aGrass, Günter,
_d1927-2015.
650 0 _aAuthors, German
_y20th century
_vBiography.
830 0 _aCritical lives (London, England)
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