The Life and Work of Günter Grass Literature, History, Politics |
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| Author:
| Preece, Julian |
| ISBN: | 978-0-333-79303-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2001 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $99.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.