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Author: John Reddick
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780156238298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical examination of Grass's work offers overwhelming evidence that Cat and Mouse and Dog Years are part of a unified structure begun by The Tin Drum and that they continue to explore the same key figures, themes, and symbols. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
Author: Günter Grass
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780156155519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Stuart Taberner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-07-16
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0521876702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew essays for students of German's best-known living author and his works, including The Tin Drum.
Author: Katharina Hall
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9783039109012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study extends the long-established notion of Grass's 'Danzig Trilogy' to that of the 'Danzig Quintet' - a literary project of epic proportions, which explores the evolution of Germany's relationship to its Nazi past over a period of forty years. The interlocking stories of Die Blechtrommel (1959), Katz und Maus (1961), Hundejahre (1963), örtlich betäubt (1969) and Im Krebsgang (2002) are mediated by the memory and language of seven first-person narrators. Using the dual conceptualisation of memory developed by Freud and Lacan - 'reliving' versus 'recollecting' the past - the author shows how these narrators' accounts assert the reality of the Holocaust (as well as German wartime suffering), while highlighting the reluctance of ordinary Germans to admit their involvement in the Nazi regime. This delineation of the complex relationship of three generations to their history is deepened by the intertextual nature of the quintet. Using the theory of Peter Brooks, Umberto Eco, Shoshana Felman and Hayden White, the study explores how Grass's textual strategies encourage the reader to view all five works as one overarching narrative, while simultaneously avoiding any literary or historical closure. In the process, the study places each book in the context of its moment of production, and also considers the implications of Grass's belated admission, in August 2006, that he served with the Waffen-SS during the final months of World War Two.
Author: Alex Donovan Cole
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-11-30
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 1000797643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis manuscript argues for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to contemporary issues like neoliberalism and place of the petit bourgeoisie in social life. I define Grass’s trajectory as a thinker through his novels and speeches. Primarily, I draw attention to the role memory plays in Grass’s thought: that his work represented an intellectual and aesthetic response to the role Nazism continued to play in West German politics in the post war era. To Grass, Nazism represented a resurgent threat unaddressed following the end of World War II. Later, Grass amended his concept of memory politics to address neoliberal capitalism, reiterating his radicalism and affirming the need for German society to resist the rise of extreme ideologies.
Author: Timothy Bruce Malchow
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1640140859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to examine the connection between gender and memory in Grass's oeuvre, which is especially timely in light of current concerns about male privilege.
Author: Joseph A. Biesinger
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 865
ISBN-13: 0816074712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wealth of information is presented in this guide in a variety of formats, including a concise narrative history, a chronology and A to Z entries, to provide readers with a greater understanding of German history, from the Renaissance to the present day.
Author: John Reddick
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 289
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Günter Grass
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2016-12-06
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 0544787633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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: Reiko Tachibana
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-07-30
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780791436646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pioneering study of German and Japanese postwar fiction, providing a broad cultural basis for understanding a half-century of responses to World War II from within the two societies.
