This book traces a longstanding concern with issues of authorship throughout the work of G--uuml--;nter Grass, Germany's best-known contemporary writer and public intellectual. Through detailed close-readings of all of his major literary works from...
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This book traces a longstanding concern with issues of authorship throughout the work of G--uuml--;nter Grass, Germany's best-known contemporary writer and public intellectual. Through detailed close-readings of all of his major literary works from 1970 onwards and careful analysis of his political writings from 1965 to 2005, it argues that Grass's tendency to insert clearly recognisable self-images into his literary texts represents a coherent and calculated reaction to his constantexposure in the media-led public sphere. It underlines the degree of play which has characterised Grass's relati
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-192) and index
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Contents; List of Figures; Note on editions used and frequently cited works; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Models of Authorship: Das Treffen in Telgte in Context; 2. Public Constructions of Authorship in Grass's Political Writings, 1965-2005; 3. 'Mich [...] in Variationen [...] erzählen' I: Placing the Author in Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke and Kopfgeburten oder Die Deutschen sterben aus; 4. 'Aus der Geschichte gefallen': Displacing the Author in Der Butt and Die Rättin; 5. 'Mich [...] in Variationen [...] erzählen' II: Reconstructing the Author in Zunge zeigen and Mein Jahrhundert
6. 'Er, in dessen Namen ich krebsend vorankam': Reading the Author in Ein weites Feld and Im KrebsgangConclusion; Select Bibliography; Index
