The Tin Drum

by Gunter Grass | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0140023593 Global Overview for this book
Registered by winglmn60wing of Spotswood, Victoria Australia on 8/9/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by winglmn60wing from Spotswood, Victoria Australia on Saturday, August 9, 2008
This one has sat on Mount To-be-read for far too long. I must admit that I won't get to it any time soon, so... time for this book to travel!

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'Meet Oskar Matzerath, "the eternal three-year-old drummer." On the morning of his third birthday, dressed in a striped pullover and patent leather shoes, and clutching his drumsticks and his new tin drum, young Oskar makes an irrevocable decision: "It was then that I declared, resolved, and determined that I would never under any circumstances be a politician, much less a grocer; that I would stop right there, remain as I was--and so I did; for many years I not only stayed the same size but clung to the same attire." Here is a Peter Pan story with a vengeance. But instead of Never-Never Land, Günter Grass gives us Danzig, a contested city on the Polish-German border; instead of Captain Hook and his pirates, we have the Nazis. And in place of Peter himself is Oskar, a twisted puer aeternis with a scream that can shatter glass and a drum rather than a shadow.

The Tin Drum uses savage comedy and a stiff dose of magical realism to capture not only the madness of war, but also the black cancer at the heart of humanity that allows such degradations to occur. Grass wields his humor like a knife--yes, he'll make you laugh, but he'll make you bleed, as well. There have been many novels written about World War II, but only a handful can truly be called great; The Tin Drum, without a doubt, is one.'

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