In this important study, originally published in 1985, Ronald Hayman scrutinizes Grass's development and assesses his achievement. While this study focuses mainly on the fiction, it also takes into account…

Six Decades grants a privileged look behind the normally closed door of Nobel Laureate Grass’ (1927-2015) studio. For well over half a century he worked unceasingly as a writer, sculptor…

In uber funf Jahrzehnten hat Gunter Grass das Essen immer wieder zum Gegenstand seiner kunstlerischen Arbeit gemacht. Von Die Blechtrommel uber Der Butt und Gedichte wie Die Schweinekopfsulze bis hin…

Diese Gesamtdarstellung ist als eine wechselseitige Erhellung wichtiger Funktionen und Implikationen der Gattung Marchen konzipiert. Sie stellt namlich die Verwendung von Marchen bzw. Marchenfoermigkeit als Narrativ im literarischen Werk zweier…

Selected from the vast range of his work, these writings trace Grass’s development as a writer, and with it the history of a nation coming to terms with its past…

As the Berlin Wall crumbled and the two Germanys became one, Grass was one of a few who spoke out against reunification. In this collection of speeches and debates on…

One hundred stories, each named after a year this century. In one, Erich Maria Remarque gives his views on World War I, in another former Nazis reflect on the good…

This autobiographical novel balances the agonising history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of the author’s political campaigning with Willie Brandt. The central symbol of the book is…