{"product_id":"the-life-and-work-of-gunter-grass-literature-history-politics-paperback","title":"The Life and Work of Gunter Grass: Literature, History, Politics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. Preece\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book traces the career of the most widely read and influential German novelist in the second half of the Twentieth-century. It shows in particular how his experiences as a teenage Nazi shaped his thinking, both in his novels and his role as critic and campaigner, from The Tin Drum (1959), his most famous novel, to My Century (1999), from his public protest against the building of the Berlin Wall (1961) to his diatribes against Helmut Kohl in the late 1990s. This new paperback edition includes new material on his last two books, My Century and Crabwalk including a revised Bibliography and Chronology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJULIAN PREECE studied at Oxford University where he completed a doctorate on Gunter Grass in 1991. After appointments at London and Huddersfield, he now teaches German and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Kent. His research concentrates on the intersections between literature and history, and fiction and biography. He is the author (with Waldemar Lotnik) of \u003cem\u003eNine Lives: Ethnic Conflict in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands\u003c\/em\u003e (1999) and the editor of the \u003cem\u003eCambridge Companion to Kafka\u003c\/em\u003e (2002). Since 1994 he has been a co-editor of the \u003cem\u003eBradford Series of Colloquia on Contemporary German Literature.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 243\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 9.74 x 5.82 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 18, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42119594606727,"sku":"9781403916082","price":89.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a9f4ecc8fb05051185c0711fe7926e56.webp?v=1732541911","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-life-and-work-of-gunter-grass-literature-history-politics-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}