The Tin Drum (Picador Books) - Softcover

Grass, Gunter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330305549 ISBN 13: 9780330305549

Verlag: Picador, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

This is a big book in every sense, full of extraordinary scenes and characters: even on a single reading it seems prodigally rich in comic invention, and demands to be worried at time and again (Julian Mitchell Sunday Times)"Grass wrote with fury, love, derision, slapstick, pathos - all with an unforgiving conscience" (John Irving)"Grass is one of the master fabulists of our age" (Michael Ratcliffe The Times)"The novel is as monstrous as its hero, pullalating with a kind of anti-life... Gunter Grass may have written the nearest thing to a literary masterpiece his generation is capable of producing" (David Lodge Spectator)"Funny, macabre, disgusting, blasphemous, pathetic, horrifying, erotic, it is an endless delirium, an outrageous phantasmagoria in which dust from Goethe, Hans Andersen, Swift, Rabelais, Joyce, Aristophanes and Rochester dances on the point of a needle in the flame of a candle that was not worth the game" (Daily Telegraph) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II, The Tin Drum is the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution.  Willfully stunting his growth at three feet for many years, wielding his tin drum and piercing scream as anarchistic weapons, he provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition in the modern world.Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0330305549
• ISBN 13: 9780330305549
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 592