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 …
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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.
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The Tin Drum
Hardcover, 551 pages
English language
Published May 25, 1993 by Everyman's Library.
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- 978-0-679-42033-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 27188196
The Tin Drum
Hardcover, 640 pages
Published June 2, 1993 by Everyman's Library.
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- 978-1-85715-147-3Copied ISBN!
The Tin Drum
Paperback, 576 pages
Published May 5, 2005 by Vintage.
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- 978-0-09-948350-2Copied ISBN!
The Tin Drum
592 pages
English language
Published Nov. 10, 1999 by Pantheon.
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- 978-0-375-42057-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 43309253
The Tin Drum
Paperback, 526 pages
Published June 2, 1997 by Minerva.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7493-9475-2Copied ISBN!
Die Blechtrommel
778 pages
German language
Published June 2, 1998 by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag.
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- 978-3-88243-484-2Copied ISBN!
Il tamburo di latta
591 pages
Italian language
Published June 2, 1974 by Feltrinelli.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-07-80705-3Copied ISBN!
The Tin Drum
Paperback, 568 pages
Published Feb. 5, 2004 by Vintage.
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- 978-0-09-946604-8Copied ISBN!
The Tin Drum
audio cassette
English language
Published Jan. 2, 2001 by Recorded Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7887-5015-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 46345970
The tin drum
585 pages
English language
Published June 2, 1965 by Penguin.
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- 978-0-14-002359-6Copied ISBN!
Die Blechtrommel
German language
Published June 2, 1979 by Luchterhaud.
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- 978-3-472-86063-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 474123208
Die Blechtrommel
493 pages
German language
Published June 2, 1974 by Luchterhand.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-472-61147-9Copied ISBN!
The tin drum
English language
Published June 2, 1989 by Pan Books.
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- 978-0-330-30554-9Copied ISBN!
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