Die Blechtrommel
Subtitle: Roman
By: Gunter Grass.
Edition: 7. Aufl.
Publisher: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Munchen
Language: ger
Number of pages: 778
ISBN-13: 9783882434842; 9783423118217
Subjects: Dwarfs -- Fiction; Historical fiction, German; Political fiction, German; Germany -- History -- 1945-1955 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Set against the backcloth of National Socialism, [this novel] is told in the first person by the central figure, Oskar Matzerath, tracing Oskar's history, beginning with his grandparents, and finishing at his thirtieth birthday (1954). Oskar is a dwarf, whose passion is his tin drum, which exercises some of the power of the Pied Piper's pipe, and he possesses a voice which is capable of breaking glass of all kinds at considerable range. The magic of Oskar's voice is matched by his ability to arrest his growth, but here, as elsewhere, the book moves on two planes, for the adult burgher world believes that his failure to develop is due to a fall. The grotesque figure of Oskar is accompanied by a grotesque series of happenings throughout his life, especially the eccentric deaths of those around him ... Oskar is finally condemned for a murder he has not committed and placed in a mental hospital. Oskar's detachment from the normal world enables him to comment upon it, and the book presents a dry and ironic review of the history of Oskar's times from the standpoint of Danzig, which was his home [as well as the author's].-The Oxford Companion to German Literature.
Notes: "11821"--Spine.
Table of contents: title: Der weite Rock; title: Unterm Floss; title: Falter und Gluhbirne; title: Das Fotoalbum; title: Glas, Glas, Glaeschen; title: Der Stundenplan; title: Rasputin und das ABC; title: Fernwirkender Gesang vom Stockturm aus gesungen; title: Die Tribune; title: Schaufenster; title: Kein Wunder; title: Karfreitagskost; title: Die Verjungung zum Fusende; title: Herbert Truczinskis Rucken; title: Niobe; title: Glaube Hoffnung Liebe; title: Schrott; title: Die Polnische Post Das Kartenhaus; title: Er liegt auf Saspe; title: Maria; title: Brausepulver; title: Sondermeldungen; title: Die Ohnmach zu Frau Greff tragen; title: Fuenfundsiebenzig Kilo; title: Bebras Fronnheater; title: Beton besichtigen, oder mystisch barbarisch gelangweilt; title: Die Nachfolge Christi; title: Die Stauber; title: Das Krippenspiel; title: Die Ameisenstrasse; title: Soll ich oder soll ich nicht; title: Desinfektionsmittel; title: Feuersteine und Grabsteine; title: Fortuna Nord; title: Madonna 49; title: Der Igel; title: Im Kleiderschrank; title: Klepp; title: Auf dem Kokosteppich; title: Im Zwiebelkeller; title: Am Atlantikwall oder es konnen die Bunker ihren Beton nicht loswerden; title: Der Ringfinger; title: Die letzte Strasenbahn oder Anbetung eines Weckglases; title: Dreissig.