Adventures of a Flounder
Author : Gertrud Bauer Pickar
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Authors, German
ISBN :
Author : Gertrud Bauer Pickar
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Authors, German
ISBN :
Author : Siegfried Mews
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571130624
A comprehensive narrative overview and analysis of the criticism of the controversial German author's works. When the Swedish Academy announced that Günter Grass had been awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, it singled out his first novel The Tin Drum (1959, English translation 1963) as a seminal work that had signaled thepostwar rebirth of German letters, auguring "a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction." Nearly fifty years after its publication, the novel's significance has been generally acknowledged: it is the uncontested favorite among Grass's works of fiction on the part of reading public and critics alike, yet its canonical status tends to obscure the decidedly mixed and even hostile reactions it initially elicited. Along with The Tin Drum, Grass's impressive body of literary work since the 1950s has spawned a cottage industry of Grass criticism, making a reliable guide through the thicket of sometimes contradictory readings a definite desideratum. SiegfriedMews fills this lacuna in Grass scholarship by way of a detailed but succinct, descriptive as well as analytical and evaluative overview of the scholarship from 1959 to 2005. Grass's politically motivated interventions in publicdiscourse have kept him highly visible, blurring the boundaries between politics and aesthetics. Mews therefore examines not only academic criticism but also the daily and weekly press (and other news media), providing additionalinsight into the reception of Grass's works. Siegfried Mews is Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Author : Norris Wilson Yates
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 1967
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156155519
The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke's "mouse"-his prominent Adam's apple. This incident sets off a wild series of events that ultimately leads to Mahlke's becoming a national hero. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780151011766
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Author : Günter Grass
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : 9780571203123
Here, Gunter Grass writes of great events and seemingly trivial ones, of technical developments and scientific discoveries, of achievements in culture, sport, of megolamania, persecution and murder, war and disasters and of new beginnnings.
Author : Patrick O'Neill
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Authors, German
ISBN :
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : HMH
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0544787633
“A final book like no other” from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Tin Drum: poetry and meditations on writing, aging, and living until the end (The Irish Times). In spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, Günter Grass weaves his life’s reflections together into a witty and elegiac swansong: love letters, soliloquies, jealous musings, social satire, and moments of happiness long to be shared. As the inimitable German fabulist lives his remaining days, his passion for writing spurs in him new life. His final work is a creation filled with wisdom and defiance. In a striking interplay of poetry, lyric prose, and drawings, this diverse assemblage is a moving farewell gift—a sensual, melancholy summation of a life fully lived. “Elegant musings on dying and, most poignantly, living.” —Kirkus Reviews “A glorious gift, a final salute true to the singular creativity of the most human, and humane, of artists.” —The Irish Times “A thoughtful, uncompromising meditation on death and aging . . . He describes loss, change, and memory with a combination of melancholy and wit.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Noel Thomas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9027240051
This study provides a critical analysis of the narrative works of Günter Grass, under which Die Blechtrommel, Katz und Mann, Hundejahre und Der Butt. It is of interest to everyone who wants to get a better understanding of the novels of this famous German writer.
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 2003
Category : War stories
ISBN : 9780571216512
From Books Cover: Gunter Grass has been wrestling with Germany's past for decades now. In this new novel Grass examines a subject that has long been taboo - the suffering of Germans during World War II. It is the story of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a former cruise ship turned refugee carrier, by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. Some 9,000 people, most of them women and children fleeing from the advancing Red Army went down in the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest maritime disaster of all time. Grass's narrator is one of the few survivors, a middle-aged journalist who live in Berlin. Born to an unwed mother on a lifeboat the night of the attack, Paul Pokriefke tries to piece together the tragic events. While his mother Tulla sees her whole existence in terms of that calamitous moment, Paul wishes their life could have been more normal, less touched by the past. For his teenage son Konrad, who dabbles in the dark, far-right corner of the internet, the Gustloff embodies the denial of Germany's wartime agony.