This book traces a longstanding concern with issues of authorship
throughout the work of Gunter 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
calculated reaction to his constant exposure in the media-led
public sphere. It underlines the degree of play which has
characterized Grass's relationship to this sphere and himself as
part of it and explains how a concern with the very concept of
authorship has conditioned the way his work as a whole has
developed on both thematic and structural levels. The major
achievement of this study is to develop a new interpretative
paradigm for Grass's work. It explains for the first time how his
playful tendency to manipulate his own authorial image conditions
all levels of his texts and is equally manifest in literary and
political realms.
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