Book Review: Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum

Wed, 2006-08-30 07:43 — kristendom

Fleas biting an elephantâ€™s skin: thatâ€™s the image that comes to mind when I read all the negative criticism being lobbed at Gunter Grassâ€™s revelation that as a teenager he was a member of Hitler Youth. What is noble is that no bookâ”€in politics as well as in fictionâ”€has done more than The Tin Drum to advance the creation of a freer and progressive Germany. Also, it is hard to imagine magic realism without Grassâ€™s prototype: Oskar Matzerath, the boy who willed himself to stop growing. The influence that Grass had on Rushdie, Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino, Marciano Guerrero, and other universal literary giants is undeniable.

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