Günter Grass and His Critics: From the Tin Drum to Crabwalk

by Siegfried Mews

A comprehensive narrative overview and analysis of the criticism of the controversial German author's works.

When the Swedish Academy announced that G nter 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."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640140395
• ISBN13: 9781640140394
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"