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Tin drum

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.

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  • "Blechtrommel"@en
  • "Blechtrommel"
  • "Tin drum"

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  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • "Een driejarige jongen besluit uit protest tegen de verdorvenheid van zijn omgeving in Nazi-Duitsland niet verder te groeien."
  • "SECOND WORLD WAR FICTION. On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures in post-war Germany."
  • "A magical realist novel in which Oskar Matzerath, a thirty-year-old dwarf in a mental hospital, tells his life story, which was shaped by the rise of Nazi power and includes his assumption of guilt for a murder he did not commit."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "Contemporary German novel, the subject of much controversy when it was first published in 1959, focuses on the years of Nazi control in Germany as seen through the eyes of an intelligent dwarf, masquerading as a retarded lunatic."
  • "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."@en
  • "The fictional autobiography of Oskar Matzerath, a mental patient who has willfully stunted his growth at three feet and wields a piercing scream and a tin drum as anarchistic weapons."@en
  • "SECOND WORLD WAR FICTION. Beginning with the unforgettable words 'Granted: I'm an inmate in a mental institution', "The Tin Drum", the narrative of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. On his third birthday Oskar resolves to stunt his own growth at three feet, and on the same day he receives his first tin drum. Wielding his drum and piercing scream as anarchic weapons, he draws forth memories from the past as well as judgements about the horrors, injustices, and eccentricities he observes through the long nightmare of the Nazi era. After fifty years, "The Tin Drum" has, if anything, gained in power and relevance."

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  • "Historical fiction"@en
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  • "Powieść niemiecka"
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  • "Tin Drum"
  • "The tin drum [Engl. transl.]"
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  • "Tin drum"
  • "The tin drum = [Die Blechtrommel]"@en
  • "The tin drum : [novel]"
  • "The Tin Drum"@en
  • "The Tin Drum"
  • "THE TIN DRUM"
  • "Klō̜ng sangkasī = The tin drum"
  • "The tin drum"
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  • "The Tin drum"

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