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TY - JOUR
T1 - "Mich in Variationen erzählen" : Günter Grass and the ethics of autobiogaphy.
AU - Braun, Rebecca
PY - 2008/10
Y1 - 2008/10
N2 - This article examines Grass's 2006 autobiography Beim Häuten der Zwiebel against the background of a long career of overtly complex literary self-presentation. Its aim is twofold: to situate the autobiography as an aesthetic form within Grass's œuvre, and to use what I term Grass's much wider `autobiographical project', developed over the course of his career, to suggest that a kind of narrative ethics may in fact underlie much apparently wilful posturing in autobiographically informed literature. Using Philippe Lejeune to develop the idea of a `contractual effect' felt by author and reader, I argue that Grass draws on the autobiographical mode in order to critique contemporary reading practices.
AB - This article examines Grass's 2006 autobiography Beim Häuten der Zwiebel against the background of a long career of overtly complex literary self-presentation. Its aim is twofold: to situate the autobiography as an aesthetic form within Grass's œuvre, and to use what I term Grass's much wider `autobiographical project', developed over the course of his career, to suggest that a kind of narrative ethics may in fact underlie much apparently wilful posturing in autobiographically informed literature. Using Philippe Lejeune to develop the idea of a `contractual effect' felt by author and reader, I argue that Grass draws on the autobiographical mode in order to critique contemporary reading practices.
KW - Grass
KW - autobiography Beim Häuten der Zwiebel
KW - literary self-presentation
KW - narrative ethics
KW - Philippe Lejeune
M3 - Journal article
VL - 103
SP - 1051
EP - 1066
JO - Modern Language Review
JF - Modern Language Review
SN - 0026-7937
IS - 4
ER -