New essays for students of German's best-known living author and his works, including The Tin Drum.

Chronology; Introduction Stuart Taberner; 1. Biography as politics Julian Preece; 2. Günter Grass's political rhetoric Frank Finlay; 3. The exploratory fictions of Günter Grass Patrick O' Neill; 4. Günter Grass and magical realism Peter Arnds; 5. Günter Grass's 'Danzig Quintet' Katharina Hall; 6. Günter Grass and gender Helen Finch; 7. Authorial construction in Günter Grass's prose Rebecca Braun; 8. Günter Grass's apocalyptic visions Monika Shafi; 9. Günter Grass and German unification Stephen Brockmann; 10. Günter Grass's Peeling the Onion Stuart Taberner; 11. Günter Grass as poet Karen Leeder; 12. Günter Grass and art Richard Erich Schade; 13. Günter Grass as dramatist David Barnett; 14. Film adaptations of Günter Grass's prose work Roger Hillman; 15. Günter Grass and his contemporaries in East and West Stuart Parkes; Guide to further reading.