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The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe presents an overview and analysis of the critical reception of Günter Grass’s classic novel throughout Europe. Starting from the reviews on its first publication in Germany in 1959, it follows the reception of its translations in Poland, Italy, the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Finland and Sweden. Press reviews for the general public form the main object of research in this volume. The articles reveal the different roles played by religious, political and ideological matters in the reception of the novel in the respective European countries. The articles, written by specialists from the countries under study, also reveal national differences and resemblances in the institutions of literary life in Europe.

Grass, Günter --- German literature --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Grass, Günter, --- Грасс, Гюнтер, --- גראס, גינטר, --- Ґрас, Ґюнтер, --- Gras, Gi︠u︡nter, --- Girās, Gūntir, --- Grās, Gūntir, --- گونتر، گراس, --- Grass, Günter --- Грасс, Гюнтер --- Ґрас, Ґюнтер --- Gras, Gi︠u︡nter --- Girās, Gūntir --- Grās, Gūntir --- Literary studies: from c 1900 --- -German literature --- -Criticism and interpretation. --- -Grass, Günter --- -Social sciences. --- Social sciences.

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When the Swedish Academy announced that Günter Grass had been awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, it singled out his first novel 'The Tin Drum' (1959, English translation 1963) as a seminal work that had signaled the postwar rebirth of German letters, auguring 'a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction.' Nearly fifty years after its publication, the novel's significance has been generally acknowledged: it is the uncontested favorite among Grass's works of fiction on the part of reading public and critics alike, yet its canonical status tends to obscure the decidedly mixed and even hostile reactions it initially elicited. Along with 'The Tin Drum,' Grass's impressive body of literary work since the 1950s has spawned a cottage industry of Grass criticism, making a reliable guide through the thicket of sometimes contradictory readings a definite desideratum. Siegfried Mews fills this lacuna in Grass scholarship by way of a detailed but succinct, descriptive as well as analytical and evaluative overview of the scholarship from 1959 to 2005. Grass's politically motivated interventions in public discourse have kept him highly visible, blurring the boundaries between politics and aesthetics. Mews therefore examines not only academic criticism but also the daily and weekly press (and other news media), providing additional insight into the reception of Grass's works. Siegfried Mews is Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Winner, CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award, 2008.

Criticism --- History --- Grass, Günter, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Appreciation --- Grass, Gu��nter, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Appreciation. --- Critique et interprétation --- Appréciation --- Grass, Günter, --- Grass, Günter --- Critique et interprétation. --- Appréciation. --- Criticism - Germany - History - 20th century --- Grass, Günter, - 1927- - Criticism and interpretation --- Grass, Günter, - 1927- - Appreciation --- Grass, Günter --- Грасс, Гюнтер --- גראס, גינטר, --- Ґрас, Ґюнтер --- Gras, Gi︠u︡nter --- Girās, Gūntir --- Grās, Gūntir --- گونتر، گراس, --- Grass, Günter, - 1927 --- -Grass, Günter, - 1927 --- -Criticism --- EVIEW. --- Grass, Gunter,

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Demographers say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be aged eighty or older, and every third person over sixty-five. The prediction for other Western countries is scarcely different. Indeed, the aging society is seen by some as a graver threat than even global warming, with potentially unmanageable tensions relating to intergenerational relationships, work and benefits, and flows of people. This book explores the representation and performance of aging in recent "late-style" German-language fiction. It situates the authors chosen as case studies -- Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser -- in their biographical and social contexts and explores the significance of their aesthetic figuring of aging for debates raging both in Germany and internationally. In particular, the book looks at gender, generations, and trauma and their impact on how writers "narrativize" aging. Finally, it examines the "timeliness" of these different representations and late-style performances of aging in the context of the shift of social, political, and economic power away from the declining societies of the West to the ascendant societies of the East. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the University of Leeds.

German literature --- Old age in literature. --- Aging in literature. --- Older people in literature --- History and criticism. --- Grass, Günter, --- Klüger, Ruth, --- Wolf, Christa --- Walser, Martin, --- Volf, Krista --- Ihlenfeld, Christa Margarete --- Angress, R. K. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Grass, Günter --- Грасс, Гюнтер --- גראס, גינטר, --- Ґрас, Ґюнтер --- Gras, Gi︠u︡nter --- Girās, Gūntir --- Grās, Gūntir --- گونتر، گراس, --- Aging. --- Christa Wolf. --- Germany. --- Günter Grass. --- Intergenerational Relationships. --- Late Period. --- Martin Walser. --- Old-Age Style. --- Ruth Klüger. --- Social, Political, Economic Power. --- Trauma. --- Western Countries.