Günter Grass and His Critics – From The Tin Drum to Crabwalk Mews Paperback

Gnter Grass and His CriticsFrom The Tin Drum to Crabwalk\nAuthor(s): Siegfried Mews\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781640140394, 978-1640140394\nSynopsis\nA comprehensive narrative overview and analysis of the criticism of the controversial German author's works.\n\nWhen the Swedish Academy announced that Gnter 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.\"" Nearly fifty years after its publication, the novel's significance has been generally acknowledged: it is the uncontested favorite among Grass's works of fiction on the part of reading public and critics alike, yet its canonical status tends to obscure the decidedly mixed and even hostile reactions it initially eli.