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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571130624
• ISBN13: 9781571130624
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"