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Selected Poems: 1956-93 (Faber Poetry)
Gunter Grass
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Description for Selected Poems: 1956-93 (Faber Poetry)
Paperback. This collection of poems presents Gunter Grass's preoccupations - social, sexual, moral, gastronomical - as a mixture of expressionist grotesquerie and political outspokenness that has characterized his fiction. Translator(s): Hamburger, Michael. Series: Faber Poetry. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125 x 12. Weight in Grams: 210.
Gunter 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 ... Read more
Gunter 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Series
Faber Poetry
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571195183
SKU
V9780571195183
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Ref
99-27
About Gunter Grass
Gunter Grass, born in Danzig, Germany in 1927, is one of Germany's most celebrated writers. A man of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist and graphic artist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999. He died in 2015.
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