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Gunter Grass
On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from…
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Gunter Grass, says The Times, ‘is on his own as an artist’, and indeed this extraordinary, provoking and joyously Rabelaisian celebration of life, food and sex is unique. Lifted from…
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A female rat demonstrates that her species will inherit a devastated earth but will inevitably imitate the grotesque example set by human destructiveness throughout history.
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…
Julian Preece
Gunter Grass is the first biographical study in English of this Nobel Prize-winning writer.
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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…
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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…
This selection combines Selected Poems (1966) and New Poems (1968). The German originals face the translations. Translated by Michael Hamburger and Christopher Middleton. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
These fifty-four poems, spanning four decades, depict a landscape at once recognizably mundane and grotesquely surreal. Grass’s spirited humor and linguistic creativity transcend the cant of political poetry. The German…
Nadie sabra leer nuestro presente sin haber leido El tambor de hojalata. Una obra cumbre de la literatura contemporanea, la novela emblematica del Premio Nobel Gunter Grass. Oskar Matzerath, uno…
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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…
Grass-novelist, poet, and graphic artist-is also a committed political activist. In this collection of essays, he takes on writing and politics with his accustomed verve and insight. Introduction by Salman…
A memoir that evokes Gunter Grass’ modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum…
Harm and Dorte Peters, the quintessential couple, are on vacation in Asia. But wherever they are, they can’t get away from the political upheaval back home. With irony and wit…
A collection of one hundred inter-linked stories celebrating the twentieth century, by Germany’s most eminent contemporary writer. As the sequence of stories unfolds, a lively and rich picture emerges, an…
‘For Grass, Germany’s relationship with its history is an incurable disease. He provides a mastery and poignant diagnosis.’ - The Times (UK)
Hailed by critics and readers alike as Gunter Grass’s best book since The Tin Drum, Crabwalk is an engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and a critical…
Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass’ modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The…
In an explosive fusion of myth and reality, magic and romance, Dog Years charts forty years of German history, starting with 1917, to expose the madness of a society that…
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The satire is sharp, the analysis precise, and Grass is still expert in drawing out the painful comedy of human behaviour and the pitfalls that await good intentions’ - The…
To compensate for his unusually large Adam’s apple - source of both comfort and stress - 14-year-old Mahlke turns himself into an athlete and ace driver. Soon he is known…
Hitler’s rise and fall is seen through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator whose magic powers are symbolic of the grave forces dominating the German troops of that period. Grass…
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In an attempt to compensate for his unsightly Adam’s apple, Mahlke sets out to become a great athlete.
A group of leading intellectuals from all parts of Germany gather in 1647 for the purpose of strengthening the last remaining bond within a divided nation-its language and literature-as the…
This Companion offers wide coverage of Grass’s oeuvre across the range of media in which he works, including literature, television and visual arts. The newly commissioned essays explain, in a…
This is the definitive German-language edition of Gunter Grass’ oeuvre, containing all of his literary work, from The Tin Drum to his last book Vonne Endlichkait. From the novels and…
New essays for students of German’s best-known living author and his works, including The Tin Drum.
Alex Donovan Cole
I argue for the importance of Gunter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to issues…
Rebecca Braun (University of Liverpool)
A challenging new reading of Grass’s literary work and political writings that examines how the author has reacted to sustained public interest in his person from the mid-1960s onwards. Braun…
This work, part of the German Library series, contains translations of two major works by Gunter Grass: Cat and Mouse and The Meeting at Telgte . The book also includes…
Edward Diller
Although The Tin Drum has often been called one of the great novels of the 20th century, most critics have been baffled in attempting to draw its apparent chaos into…
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Gunter Grass’s The Tin Drum, the most widely read postwar German novel.
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Gunter Grass’s The Tin Drum, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literary Themes for Students: War and Peace.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
One of the greatest modern novels, The Tin Drum is the story of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who provides a profound yet…
J. Preece
This book traces the career of this German novelist. It shows how his experiences as a teenage Nazi shaped his thinking, both in his novels and his role as campaigner…
Peter Arnds
A new reading of Grass’s novel, emphasizing its treatment of the Nazi ideology of race and eugenics as it applied to asocials.
Guenter Grass
A newly discovered and translated jewel of a story from the Nobel laureate
Memories from Grass’s children
Gives the reader an insight into a key moment in the life of modern Europe. This title also provides an insight into the creative process as the reader witnesses ideas…
In this delightful sequel to Peeling the Onion, Gunter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, of their…
Ann L. Mason
The Skeptical Muse: A Study of Guenter Grass’ Conception of the Artist focuses on Grass’ parodic re-evaluation of the German artist-hero in his novels, essays, plays and poetry. By means…
Peter J Brenner
The third edition of the New History of German Literature follows the successful concept of previous editions. The book covers the development of German literature from the 14th century to…
