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Günter Grass was Germany’s foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain best-sellers across the world. __The__ __Tin Drum__ was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1979, and the memoir __Peeling the Onion__ astounded readers by revealing Grass had been drafted into the military wing of the SS, a ruthless component of the Nazi war machine, in the closing months of World War II. Grass also wrote memorably about the German student movement, feminism, and German reunification, and was a key influence on magical realist authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie, as well as on the popular novelist John Irving. __Günter Grass__ is the first biography in English of this Nobel Prize–winning writer. Julian Preece introduces both Grass’s key works and political activities, chronicling his interaction with major figures from literary and public life like holocaust poet Paul Celan, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and cofounder of the Red Army Faction Ulrike Meinhof. From Grass’s campaigning as a citizen for the anti-Nazi resistor and Social Democrat leader Willy Brandt to his more recent invectives against free-market capitalism, Preece places Grass’s ficti

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Author

Julian Preece

Publisher

Reaktion Books, Limited

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780239446

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Biography