Book
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The tin drum
Call Number
- FICTION GRAS (CEN)
Edition
1st Vintage International ed.
Publication Information
New York : Vintage Books, 1990, c1989.
Physical Description
591 p. ; 21 cm.
Uniform Title
Summary
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.
Notes
Translation of: Die Blechtrommel.
Contents
- Book one: Wide skirt
- Under the raft
- Moth and light bulb
- Photograph album
- Smash a little windowpane
- Schedule
- Rasputin and the alphabet
- Stockturm. Long-distance song effects
- Rostrum
- Shopwindows
- No wonder
- Good Friday fare
- Tapered at the foot end
- Herbert Truczinski's back
- Niobe
- Faith, hope, love
- Book two: Scrap metal
- Polish post office
- Card house
- He lies in Saspe
- Maria
- Fizz powder
- Special communques
- How Oskar took his helplessness to Mrs. Greff
- 165 lbs.
- Bebra's Theater at the Front
- Inspection of concrete, or barbaric, mystical, bored
- Imitation of Christ
- Dusters
- Christmas play
- Ant trail
- Should I or shouldn't I?
- Disinfectant
- Growth in a freight car
- Book three: Firestones and tombstones
- Fortuna North
- Madonna
- Hedgehog
- In the clothes cupboard
- Klepp
- On the fiber rug
- In the onion cellar
- On the Atlantic Wall, or Concrete external
- Ring finger
- Last streetcar, or adoration of a preserving jar
- Thirty
- Glossary.