Constructing Authorship in the Work of Gunter Grass (English, Rebecca Braun)

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This book traces a longstanding concern with issues of authorship throughout the work of G�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 recognizable self-images into his literary texts represents a coherent and calcu…

ISBN: 9780199542703