The Cambridge Companion to Günter GrassGünter Grass is Germany's best-known and internationally most successful living author, from his first novel The Tin Drum to his recent controversial autobiography. He is known for his tireless social and political engagement with the issues that have shaped post-War Germany: the difficult legacy of the Nazi past, the Cold War and the arms race, environmentalism, unification and racism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999. This Companion offers the widest coverage of Grass's oeuvre across the range of media in which he works, including literature, television and visual arts. Throughout, there is particular emphasis on Grass's literary style, the creative personality which inhabits all his work, and the impact on his reputation of revelations about his early involvement with Nazism. The volume sets out, in a fresh and lively fashion, the fundamentals that students and readers need in order to understand Grass and his individual works. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Biography as politics | 10 |
Günter Grasss political rhetoric | 24 |
The exploratory fictions of Günter Grass | 39 |
Günter Grass and magical realism | 52 |
Günter Grasss Danzig Quintet | 67 |
Günter Grass and gender | 81 |
Authorial construction in From the Diary of a Snail and The Meeting at Telgte | 96 |
Günter Grasss Peeling the Onion | 139 |
Günter Grass as poet | 151 |
Günter Grass and art | 166 |
Günter Grass as dramatist | 180 |
Film adaptations of Günter Grasss prose work | 193 |
Günter Grass and his contemporaries in East and West | 209 |
Guide to further reading | 223 |
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