The Tin Drum

580 pages

English language

Published Sept. 24, 2005

ISBN:
978-0-09-948350-2
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The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel, pronounced [diː ˈblɛçˌtʁɔml̩] (listen)) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass. The novel is the first book of Grass's Danziger Trilogie (Danzig Trilogy). It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980. To "beat a tin drum" when used as an idiom means to create a disturbance in order to bring attention to a cause. This is based on an interpretation of the book where Oskar's beating of his titular tin drum "symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood."

5 editions

reviewed El tambor de hojalata by Günter Grass (Narrativa actual No. 22)

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Content warning El último párrafo resume toda la novela por el propio Oscar, pero lo considero poco trascendente

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