SOURCE: Merivale, Patricia. “Saleem Fathered by Oskar: Intertextual Strategies in Midnight's Children and The Tin Drum.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 21, no. 3 (July 1990): 7-21.
In the following essay, Merivale investigates the influence of Günter Grass's The Tin Drum on Midnight's Children.