The Cambridge companion to Günter Grass / edited by Stuart Taberner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Stuart Taberner -- Biography as politics / Julian Preece -- Günter Grass's political rhetoric / Frank Finlay -- The exploratory fictions of Günter Grass / Patrick O'Neill -- Günter Grass and magical realism / Peter Arnds -- Günter Grass's 'Danzig quintet' / Katharina Hall -- Günter Grass and gender / Helen Finch -- Authorial construction in From the diary of a snail and The meeting at Telgte / Rebecca Braun -- Günter Grass's apocalyptic visions / Monika Shafi -- Günter Grass and German unification / Stephen Brockmann -- Günter Grass's Peeling the onion / Stuart Taberner -- Günter Grass as poet / Karen Leeder -- Günter Grass and art / Richard Erich Schade -- Günter Grass as dramatist / David Barnett -- Film adaptations of Günter Grass's prose work / Roger Hillman -- Günter Grass and his contemporaries in East and West / Stuart Parkes.