Günter Grass's "Danzig-Quintet"
Subtitle: explorations in the memory and history of the Nazi era from "Die Blechtrommel" to "Im Krebsgang"
By: Katharina Hall.
Publisher: P. Lang; Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9783039109012
Subjects: Grass, Günter, -- 1927- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Grass, Günter, -- 1927- -- Political and social views .; National socialism in literature.; Nationalism and collective memory -- Germany.
Description: This study extends the long-established notion of Grass's 'Danzig Trilogy' to that of the 'Danzig Quintet' - a literary project of epic proportions, which explores the evolution of Germany's relationship to its Nazi past over a period of forty years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-210) and index.