The Tin Drum

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The Tin Drum is a landmark 1959 novel by Günter Grass that follows the surreal, darkly satirical life of Oskar Matzerath against the backdrop of Nazi Germany and postwar Europe.

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The Tin Drum canonical 10
The Tin Drum (film) 1
The Tin Drum (novel) 1

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instanceOf literary work
novel
adaptedAs The Tin Drum self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Tin Drum (film)
author Günter Grass
awardReceived Nobel Prize in Literature context work
centralMotif tin drum
centralTheme guilt and responsibility
memory and history
postwar German identity
the rise of Nazism
controversy challenged and banned in some regions for sexual content
countryOfOrigin Germany
EnglishTranslator Ralph Manheim
filmAdaptationDirector Volker Schlöndorff
filmAdaptationReleaseYear 1979
firstEnglishPublicationYear 1961
followedBy Cat and Mouse
Dog Years
genre historical novel
magic realism
picaresque novel
satirical novel
hasPageCount about 700 pages (varies by edition)
influenced postwar German literature discourse
laterEnglishTranslator Breon Mitchell
literaryMovement postwar German literature
literarySignificance key work of German Vergangenheitsbewältigung
landmark of 20th-century literature
mainCharacter Oskar Matzerath
narrativePerspective first-person narration
notableFeature dark satire
surreal elements
unreliable narrator
originalLanguage German
originalTitle Die Blechtrommel
placeInAuthorOeuvre Günter Grass’s debut novel
protagonistAbility glass-shattering scream
protagonistTrait refusal to grow physically
publicationYear 1959
publisher Luchterhand Literaturverlag
series Danzig Trilogy
settingLocation Gdańsk
surface form: Danzig

Free City of Danzig
settingPeriod Nazi era
World War II
postwar Europe
translatedInto English

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Günter Grass notableWork The Tin Drum
Armin Mueller-Stahl notableWork The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum adaptedAs The Tin Drum self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Tin Drum (film)
Cat and Mouse follows The Tin Drum
Cat and Mouse hasPart The Tin Drum
subject surface form: Danzig Trilogy
Dog Years follows The Tin Drum
Ute Grunert notableWork The Tin Drum
subject surface form: Günter Grass
Armin notableWork The Tin Drum
subject surface form: Armin Mueller-Stahl
Volker Schlöndorff notableWork The Tin Drum
Volker Schlöndorff directed The Tin Drum
Volker Schlöndorff basedOn The Tin Drum
this entity surface form: The Tin Drum (novel)