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Article: Distorted Reflections: The Public and Private Faces of the Author in the Work of Uwe Johnson, Gunter Grass and Martin Walser, 1965-1975.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2001
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Distorted Reflections: The Public and Private Faces of the Author in the Work of Uwe Johnson, Gunter Grass and Martin Walser, 1965-1975. By STUART TABERNER. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 1998. 141 pp. 15 [pounds sterling]; $27.50.
This book picks up a topic which was much discussed at the time but which has lately fallen out of fashion: literature and politics during the high period of Engagement in West Germany. Gunter Grass and Martin Walser always feature in such discussions, but Uwe Johnson only peripherally, as he distanced himself from the campaigners more and more as the 1960s wore on. Stuart Taberner's chapter on Johnson's Jahrestage, which focuses on ...