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Selected Poems 1956-1993

Günter Grass author Michael Hamburger translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:15th Feb '99

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Gunter Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 199

Günter Grass's international fame as a novelist has tended to obscure his achievements in poetry, but his first book was a collection of poems and he has returned faithfully to the medium throughout his writing life.Günter Grass's international fame as a novelist has tended to obscure his achievements in poetry, but his first book was a collection of poems and he has returned faithfully to the medium throughout his writing life. All his preoccupations - social, sexual, moral, gastronomical - are found there, as is the unique mixture of expressionistic grotesquerie and political outspokenness that has characterised his fiction. It is this mixture, as Michael Hamburger, Grass's most constant and sympathetic translator, points out, that has allowed him to act as court jester to the post-war German democratic state, 'telling disagreeable truths'. Selected Poems 1956-1993 encapsulates one of the defining poetic oeuvres of our time.

ISBN: 9780571195183

Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 13mm

Weight: 200g

176 pages

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