The Communicative Event in the Works of Günter Grass: Stages of Speech, 1959-2015

by Nicole A. Thesz

Nobel-laureate novelist and public intellectual G nter Grass was a towering figure among German writers and social critics from the 1950s until his death in 2015. After rising to prominence with the novel The Tin Drum (1959), he assumed the role of the conscience of the German nation. He sustained that position throughout his life despite multiple controversies, particularly the revelation, in his 2006 autobiography Peeling the Onion, of his brief...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571139567
• ISBN13: 9781571139566
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"