Description: Explores the performance of aging in the "late style" of Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser.
Brief description: STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Review Quotes: [E]xtensive . . . . Because of its clear language, meticulous textual analyses, and comprehensive bibliography [this book] is also suitable for students. In addition, [it] presents a picture of [writers of] a very specific generation whose life review allows them to come to grips with one of the central events of the twentieth century.--Karen Leeder "ARBITRIUM"