LEADER 03289cam a2200457 i 4500001 269516 005 20190304151856.0 008 170630t20182018enka b 000 0beng d 010 2018400182 035 (OCoLC)ocn992566976 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dCDX |dNZAUC |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dEYM |dOCL |dNUI |dNGU |dVP@ |dIAY |dOCLCA |dBKL |dUAB |dDLC |dUBY |dCHVBK |dYOU |dTFW |dLHM 020 9781780239019 |q(paperback) 020 1780239017 |q(paperback) 024 8 99976460704 043 e-gx--- 050 4 PT2613.R338 |bZ7738 2018 049 LHMA 100 1 Preece, Julian, |eauthor. 245 10 Günter Grass / |cJulian Preece. 264 1 London, UK : |bReaktion Books, |c2018. 264 4 |c©2018 300 223 pages : |billustrations ; |c20 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 336 still image |bsti |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Critical lives 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-220). 505 0 Prologue : many-sided man -- Fram Danzig to Paris, 1927-59 : living The tin drum -- Art and violence in the early fiction -- Public uses of fame : Willy Brandt and the SPD -- Back to the future, forward to the past -- Crying wolf in "Orwell's decade"? -- Learning to love the Berlin Republic : Too far afield -- The new nation is me -- The culmination of project self -- Epilogue : poetry and death. 520 "Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain bestsellers across the world. The Tin Drum was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1979 and the memoir Peeling the Onion in 2006 astounded readers by revealing that Grass had been drafted into the most criminal component of the Nazi war machine, the Waffen SS, in the closing months of the Second World War. He wrote memorably about the student movement, feminism and German reunification, and was a key influence on magic realist authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie, as well as the popular novelist John Irving. Grass redefined the role of ̀literary commitment', campaigning as a citizen for the German Social Democrats and helping the anti-Nazi Willy Brandt become Chancellor in 1969. Gunter Grass is the first biographical study in English of this Nobel Prize-winning writer. Julian Preece introduces Grass's key works and chronicles his interaction with major figures from literary and public life, including Chancellor Helmut Kohl and co-founder of the Red Army Faction Ulrike Meinhof, and places his fiction and public campaigning in the context of Cold War European politics and post-unification Germany."-- |cProvided by publisher. 600 10 Grass, Günter, |d1927-2015. 600 17 Grass, Günter, |d1927-2015. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00057296 600 17 Grass, Günter, |d1927-2015. |0(DE-588)118541579 |2gnd 650 0 Authors, German |y20th century |vBiography. 650 7 Authors, German. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00822051 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 655 7 Biographies. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 Biography. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423686 830 0 Critical lives (London, England) 852 0 |bstacks |hPT2613.R338 |iZ7738 2018