The Tin Drum - GÜnter Grass - 1959
Introduction
Günter Grass had been struggling as a poet and an artist for several years, getting virtually nowhere in either medium, when he decided to...
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Biography EssayGunter Grass is more than a writer; he is a phenomenon. Recognized in Germany by friend and foe alike as a formidable artistic and political force, abroad he is viewed almost as a perso...
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The German novelist, playwright, and poet Günter Grass (born 1927) is internationally known as one of the most important literary figures of postwar Germany; he is also known as an exemplar of hi...
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Günter Grass is more than a writer; he is a phenomenon. Recognized in Germany by friend and foe alike as a formidable artistic and political force, abroad he is viewed almost as a personification...
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Günter Grass, although best known for his fiction, has also had a significant career as a playwright. Some of his most original plays were conceived between 1953 and 1959, before the publication ...
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Critical Essay by H. Wayne Schow
[The Tin Drum has] an epic range in its temporal and cultural matter [and] a largeness of vision which, in its own way, comprehends the tragicomic implications of per...
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Critical Essay by Anthony Burgess
Günter Grass's primary function, from The Tin Drum on, has been to be good for the German people. The Nazis had both etiolated and inflated the German ...
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Critical Essay by Henry Hatfield
The Tin Drum has been called a picaresque novel, a Bildungsroman, and sheer pornography. In a famous account of modern German literature, Grass's style is desc...
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Critical Essay by Max Knight
When Günter Grass's "Tin Drum" was published, Hans Magnus Enzensberger said it was a dish on which reviewers would gag for a decade. Grass�...
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Cunliffe is an English-born scholar of German history and literature. In the following excerpt, he presents a detailed examination of the main characters and major themes in the first section of The T...
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In the following excerpt, Tank discusses the reaction of European critics to The Tin Drum. He also examines Grass's working methods, the process of the novel's composition, and the book&...
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Miles is an English dramatist, short story writer, novelist, author of children's literature, critic, and educator. In the following excerpt, a small portion of which was reprinted in CLC-15, h...
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In the following excerpt, Hollington discusses Grass's portrayal of bourgeois values in Nazi Germany.
Since 1964 Grass has repeatedly asked that the three novels on which his fame and reputa...
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In the following excerpt, Olster examines the character Oskar, focusing specifically on the significance of his drumming.
At an early point in Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, a strange man give...
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Lawson is an American educator and author of several books and articles on German literature. In the following excerpt, he discusses the plot and characters of The Tin Drum, and explores Grass'...
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The Tin Drum Book Notes is a free study guide on The Tin Drum by Gunther Grass. Browse the summary below:
Author Biography / Context of the Work
One-Page Plot Summary
Charac...
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Teaching The Tin Drum
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Frankfurt (dpa) - US writer John Irving views Guenter Grass as a
hero and role model, he said in an interview marking the German Nobel
literature laureate's 80th birthday on...
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Warsaw (dpa) - Nobel Prize-winning German author Gunter Grass is
likely to get the snub from local councilmen this week, when he
arrives in Gdansk, Poland, for celebrations ...
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The Baltic port city of Gdansk opened three days of celebrations Thursday to mark the 80th birthday of its famous son, German novelist Guenter Grass."I'm very happy that I could come and meet with ...
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Warsaw (dpa) - Three days of events marking the birthday of Nobel
Prize-winning German author Gunter Grass were due to begin Thursday
in the Polish Baltic port city of Gdans...
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Gdansk (dpa) - When German author Guenther Grass was born in a
suburb of this historic city on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea
80 years ago it was known to most of the ...
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Gdansk, Poland (dpa) - German Nobel Prize author Guenter Grass in
interview comments Saturday took a swipe at the current Polish
leadership in urging Poles to vote in a chan...
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Berlin (dpa) - For some, Guenter Grass is a towering literary
figure, a magnificent storyteller, who in the words of the Swedish
Academy's Nobel Prize committee "has done ma...
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Berlin (dpa) - Two of Germany's leading novelists, Martin Walser
and Siegfried Lenz, were inducted into the Nazi Party as 16-year-old
boys late in the Second World War, it h...
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Nobel laureate Guenter Grass has filed a lawsuit against the publisher of his biography for claiming that he voluntarily joined the Nazis' murderous Waffen-SS unit during World War II, his lawyer s...
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Luebeck, Germany (dpa) - Guenter Grass, Nobel literature laureate,
has welcomed the acclaim given to him in the run-up to his 80th
birthday, saying he has recovered from "hu...
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The Tin Drum - GÜnter Grass - 1959
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Critical Essay by H. Wayne Schow
The Tin Drum
Guenter Grass is my hero, writer John Irving says
