The Tin Drum: Gunter Grass

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Little Oskar looks at life from down below. And comments both perceptively and maliciously on life going on around him —about the growing influence ofNational Socialism;about his father joiningthe party. Or abouthis mother leadinga double life from the very start and regularly meetingwith her lover —which will later become her doom. And abouthis own first sexual experiences, about how he sees the beginning of the Second World War, how he then stirs things up in a theater on the war front —and finally ends up in a closed treatment facility. bildungsroman الألمانية العريق، وفيها تقنية "محيط القصص" التي جاءت في ملحمة الشاهنامة وألف ليلة وليلة، وفيها أسلوب المذكرات، والقصص الأخلاقية، وفيها يهرب الراوي ويتنصل من ما يرويه، لأنه يعكس حالات عقلية ونفسية متناقضة، فهو: عنصري ومتسامح، وهو مجنون ومختل عقلياً ولكنه واقعي وعقلاني، وهو حساس للغاية ولكنه عنيف ودموي، وهو متأمل في حركة الزمن والتاريخ ولكنه مندفع ونزق. Se Apollo aspirava all’armonia e Dioniso all’ebbrezza e al caos, Oskar era un piccolo semidio che portava l’armonia nel caos e la ragione nell’ebbrezza”

Grass worked his own enmeshment with the Nazi regime, which he only started talking about much later, into the fabric of this work. That’s why this novel is such a work of genius – he answers with a work of art.” There is Bruno, Oskar's attendant in the loony bin. There is the elegant Jan Bronski, Oskar's mother's lover. (She is married to Matzerath). There is Oskar's beloved mother herself, and his Kashubian grandmother, who grows potatoes and always wears four skirts. And so on...there are many minor characters too. And let us reduce it further: "Chapter 27 – Inspection of Concrete, or Barbaric, Mystical, Bored." A title which says, for me, all that needs to be said about the modern world. Here, Oskar and a troupe of midget acrobats and entertainers visit the German "pillbox" defence posts in northern France, late on in the war, as his country's doom looms large. They meet corporal Lankes, a former artist who now views these brutally efficient standards of war and hatred as genuine, profound artworks. An entire credulous nation believed, there's faith for you, in Santa Claus. But Santa Claus was really the gas man.Gottfried Vittlar: Becomes friends with and then testifies against Oskar in the Ring Finger Case at Oskar's bidding. Oscar doesn't much like Hitler, but he has a love-hate relationship with Jesus (Hitler's title 'Fuhrer' literally means guardian; so does the word 'Christ') - depending upon his mood he doesn't believe in Jesus, believes in Jesus, is a messenger of Jesus, is Jesus himself, is father of Jesus etc. In another scene, our dwarf hero is seen leading his street gangs to invade church (Hitler brought down synagogues). a b c Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Christopher Giroux and Brigham Narins. Vol. 88. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. pp. 19-40. From Literature Resource Center. Gunter Grass, the Nobel Prize winner is a personage that has created some scandal. Rather noisy, since it reached my ears, which are at all attuned to what happens in Germany’s literary life.

The Tin Drum certainly broke free of Mann’s towering presence. In it Grass is drawn instead to the freewheeling, organic word pictures shaping Cuban Alejo Carpentier’s magic realism. In turn Grass would prove a major influence on Salman Rushdie’s 1981 Booker Prize-winning Midnight’s Children. Oskar, pertanto, gestisce il suo stesso sdoppiamento e mentre spezza se stesso fa altrettanto con la dovuta concentrazione della lettura. My German experience has been rather mixed: impressed by their technical, mechanical accomplishments: trains, autobahns, clean streets, I was disappointed by the icy attitude, the number of junkies encountered in Berlin and some crooks we have met there, albeit some of the fraudsters had come from former Yugoslavia…I think. This refers to Oskar's ability (also unknown to the adults, except his mother) to "sing shatter" glass, that is to sing a high note which shatters glass. In the series finale of Key and Peele, The Tin Drum is listed as one of the movies that Ray Parker Jr. wrote a song for on his greatest hits album.This is my third encounter with The Tin Drum. I have read the book, saw the very good film by Volker Schlondorff (note: I am missing the German letters for the “covered” u and o). Il senso di colpa è proprio uno di quegli elementi che rende Oskar il riflesso del suo stesso popolo: