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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.

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.

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