Speak Out! Speeches, Open Letters, Commentaries - Hardcover

Gunter Grass

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436187876 ISBN 13: 9780436187872

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1969

Synopsis

Gunter Grass extends his political commitment beyond his literary work. Using his fame in what he considers the best interests of his nation, he speaks out on all current issues, and fights, in a country without deeply rooted democratic traditions, for the processes of parliamentary democracy. He sees German democracy threatened by postwar developments in a divided Germany and by the rise of extremists on the right and the left.

Grass entered the political arena in 1965, when he delivered fifty-two election speeches throughout Germany in praise of democracy, the Social Democratic Party, and Willy Brandt. In this stirring collection, which includes two election speeches, speeches on student violence and on the Czechoslovakian crisis, open letters to political figures, and political commentaries, Grass the writer appears as Grass the citizen, motivated both by deep concern and by outrage.

About this title

About the Author

GUNTER GRASS (1927 2015), Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer, attained worldwide renown with the publication of his novel The Tin Drum in 1959. A man of remarkable versatility, Grass was a poet, playwright, social critic, graphic artist, and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999.

Edition details

• Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0436187876
• ISBN 13: 9780436187872
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 142