Title

Review: The Communicative Event in the Works of Günter Grass: Stages of Speech, 1959–2015 by Nicole A. Thesz

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-2019

Journal Title

German Studies Review

Volume

42

Issue

1

Abstract

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This study examines communication and its absence as represented in fifteen prose works by Günter Grass (1927–2015). Though some of the voluminous scholarship on this author has inevitably touched on this theme, The Communicative Event in the Works of Günter Grass is the first sustained exploration of the representation of dialogue and communication across his career. Nicole Thesz posits that his oeuvre generally treats communication as an antidote to violence, which silences its victims.

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