The Tin Drum
A Classics, Literature, German Literature book. Once upon a time there was a musician who slew his four cats, stuffed them in a garbage can, left...
Beginning with the unforgettable words 'Granted: I'm an inmate in a mental institution',The Tin Drum, the narrative of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.On his third birthday Oskar resolves to stunt his own growth at three feet, and on the same day he receives his first tin drum. Wielding his drum and piercing scream as anarchic weapons, he draws forth memories from the past as well as judgements about the horrors, injustices, and eccentricities he observes through the long nightmare of the Nazi era. Oskar participates in the German post-war economic miracle - working variously in the black market, as an artist's model, in a troupe of...
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- Pages: 592 pages
- ISBN: 9781846553172 / 1846553172
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What did the onion juice do? It did what the world and the sorrows of the world could not do: it brought forth a round, human tear. It made them cry. At last they could cry again. To cry properly, without restraint, to cry like mad. The tears flowed and washed everything away. The rain came. The dew. Oskar has a vision of floodgates opening. Of dams bursting in the spring floods. What is the name of that river that overflows every spring and the government does nothing to stop it? Gnter Grass, The Tin Drum // When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while? Gnter Grass, The Tin Drum // Behind all sorrows in the world Klepp saw a ravenous hunger; all human suffering, he believed, could be cured with a portion of blood sausage. What quantities of fresh blood sausage with rings of onion, washed down with beer, Oskar consumed in order to make his friend think his sorrow's name was hunger and not Sister Dorothy. Gnter Grass, The Tin Drum //
My reaction to finishing this book was 'thank god that's over'. I thought it was interesting in the abstract, but at times I couldn't stand reading it. The unreliable main character Oskar, decides to stop growing at the age of three . He refuses to speak, and communicates by banging on his titular drum. I gather this is supposed to... 462. Die Blechtrommel=The Tin Drum, Gnter Grass: : : : 1379 733 : 9649113029 : 20 : : : : 1380 793 : 9644481666 : 20 462. Die Blechtrommel=The Tin Drum, Gnter Grass: : : : 1379 733 : 9649113029 : 20 : : : : 1380 793 : 9644481666 : 20 When I was younger the only musical instrument we had in the house was an old acoustic guitar of my dads. Despite an interest in music, I was never particularly drawn to it, finding it a snivelling and cowardly instrument; an acoustic guitar, I thought to myself, cowers and sighs and feels sorry for itself, and that wasnt at all what...
