The Cambridge Companion to Gunter Grass

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Cambridge Companion to Gunter Grass
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Stuart Taberner
SeriesCambridge Companions to Literature
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:254
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 157
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
ISBN/Barcode 9780521876704
ClassificationsDewey:833.914
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 16 July 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Gunter 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.

Author Biography

Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture and Society at the University of Leeds.