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The Tin Drum

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Tin Drum written by Günter Grass and published by Vintage Books USA. This book was released on 1964 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest German novel since the end of World War II, The Tin Drum is the autobiography of Oskar Matzerath, thirty years old, detained in a mental hospital, convicted of a murder he did not commit. On the day of his third birthday, Oskar had "declared, resolved, and determined [to] stop right there, remain as I was, stay the same size, cling to the same attire" (striped pullover and patent-leather shoes). That same day Oskar receives his first tin drum, and from then on it is the means of his expression, allowing him to draw forth memories from the past as well as judgments about the horrors, injustices, and eccentricities he observes through the long nightmare of the Nazi era. As that era ebbs bloodily away, as drum succeeds drum, Oskar participates in the German postwar economic miracle -- working variously in the black market, as an artist's model, in a troupe of traveling musicians. With the onset of affluence and fame, Oskar decides to grow a few inches, only to develop a humpback. But despite his newfound status (and stature), Oskar remains haunted by the deaths of his parents, afflicted by his responsibility for past sins -- and so assumes guilt for a murder he did not commit as an act of atonement and an opportunity to find consolation.The rhythms of Oskar's drums are intricate and insistent, and they lead us, often by way of shocking fantasies, through the dark forest of German history. Through Oskar's piercing, outspoken voice and deformed little figure, through the imaginative distortion and exaggeration of historical experience, a pathetically hilarious yet startlingly true portrayal of the human situation comes into view.

The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900429189X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe presents an overview and analysis of the critical reception of Günter Grass’s classic novel throughout Europe. Starting from the reviews on its first publication in Germany in 1959, it follows the reception of its translations in Poland, Italy, the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Finland and Sweden. Press reviews for the general public form the main object of research in this volume. The articles reveal the different roles played by religious, political and ideological matters in the reception of the novel in the respective European countries. The articles, written by specialists from the countries under study, also reveal national differences and resemblances in the institutions of literary life in Europe.

Die Blechtrommel . the Tin Drum

Author : G. Grass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Die Blechtrommel . the Tin Drum written by G. Grass and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Critical History of German Film

Author : Stephen Brockmann
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571134689
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book A Critical History of German Film written by Stephen Brockmann and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of German film dealing with individual films as works of art has long been needed. Existing histories tend to treat cinema as an economic rather than an aesthetic phenomenon; earlier surveys that do engage with individual films do not include films of recent decades. This book treats representative films from the beginnings of German film to the present. Providing historical context through an introduction and interchapters preceding the treatments of each era's films, the volume is suitable for semester- or year-long survey courses and for anyone with an interest in German cinema. The films: The Student of Prague - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - The Last Laugh - Metropolis - The Blue Angel - M - Triumph of the Will - The Great Love - The Murderers Are among Us - Sun Seekers - Trace of Stones - The Legend of Paul and Paula - Solo Sunny - The Bridge - Young T rless - Aguirre, The Wrath of God - Germany in Autumn - The Marriage of Maria Braun - The Tin Drum - Marianne and Juliane - Wings of Desire - Maybe, Maybe Not - Rossini - Run Lola Run - Good Bye Lenin - Head On - The Lives of Others Stephen Brockmann is Professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University and past President of the German Studies Assocation.

Representation, Subversion, and Eugenics in Günter Grass's The Tin Drum

Author : Peter O. Arnds
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571132871
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Representation, Subversion, and Eugenics in Günter Grass's The Tin Drum written by Peter O. Arnds and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In structure and content Grass's novel connects the persecution of degenerate art to the persecution and extermination of these "asocials," for whom the persecuted dwarf-protagonist Oskar Matzerath becomes a central metaphor and voice. This comparative study reveals that through intertextuality with the European fairy-tale tradition, the picaresque novels of Rabelais and Grimmelshausen, and through an array of carnivalesque figures Grass creates an irrational counterculture opposed to the rationalism of Nazi science and its obsession with racial hygiene, while simultaneously exposing the continuity of this destructive rationalism in postwar Germany and the absurdity of a Stunde Null, that putative tabula rasa of 1945."--BOOK JACKET.

White Rebels in Black

Author : Priscilla Layne
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472130803
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book White Rebels in Black written by Priscilla Layne and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany

Monologue of a Dog

Author : Wisława Szymborska
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151012206
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Monologue of a Dog written by Wisława Szymborska and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Szymborska writes with verve about everything from love unremembered to keys mislaid in the grass. The poems will appear, for the first time, side by side with the Polish originals, in a book to delight new and old readers alike.

Dog Years

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448180082
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Dog Years written by Günter Grass and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an explosive fusion of myth and reality, magic and romance, Dog Years charts forty years of German history, starting with 1917, to expose the madness of a society that bred and nurtured the horrors of the Third Reich before anaesthetising itself with the chaos of disintegration.

The True Deceiver

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176847
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The True Deceiver written by Tove Jansson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deception—the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island life, The Summer Book, to her famous Moomin stories: solitude and community, art and life, love and hate. Snow has been falling on the village all winter long. It covers windows and piles up in front of doors. The sun rises late and sets early, and even during the day there is little to do but trade tales. This year everybody’s talking about Katri Kling and Anna Aemelin. Katri is a yellow-eyed outcast who lives with her simpleminded brother and a dog she refuses to name. She has no use for the white lies that smooth social intercourse, and she can see straight to the core of any problem. Anna, an elderly children’s book illustrator, appears to be Katri’s opposite: a respected member of the village, if an aloof one. Anna lives in a large empty house, venturing out in the spring to paint exquisitely detailed forest scenes. But Anna has something Katri wants, and to get it Katri will take control of Anna’s life and livelihood. By the time spring arrives, the two women are caught in a conflict of ideals that threatens to strip them of their most cherished illusions.

The Recognitions

Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374676
Total Pages : 969 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Recognitions written by William Gaddis and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most distinctive, accomplished novelists of the last century. The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade, moving from New England to New York to Madrid, from the art world to the underworld, but it centers on the story of Wyatt Gwyon, the son of a New England minister, who forsakes religion to devote himself to painting, only to despair of his inspiration. In expiation, he will paint nothing but flawless copies of his revered old masters—copies, however, that find their way into the hands of a sinister financial wizard by the name of Recktall Brown, who of course sells them as the real thing. Dismissed uncomprehendingly by reviewers on publication in 1955 and ignored by the literary world for decades after, The Recognitions is now established as one of the great American novels, immensely ambitious and entirely unique, a book of wild, Boschian inspiration and outrageous comedy that is also profoundly serious and sad.

My Century

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571203123
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book My Century written by Günter Grass and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Gunter Grass writes of great events and seemingly trivial ones, of technical developments and scientific discoveries, of achievements in culture, sport, of megolamania, persecution and murder, war and disasters and of new beginnnings.

In the Egg and Other Poems

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : HarperVia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book In the Egg and Other Poems written by Günter Grass and published by HarperVia. This book was released on 1977 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection combines Selected Poems (1966) and New Poems (1968). The German originals face the translations. Translated by Michael Hamburger and Christopher Middleton. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

The Flounder

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156319355
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Flounder written by Günter Grass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1989 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immortal fisherman catches an immortal talking fish in the Stone Age, and they live eternally until modern times in Germany, bound by the man's insatiable pregnant wife and entanglements with various female cooks. The narrating fisherman uses his predicament to comment on gender and nutrition in society, as well as gloat over the fish's second capture and subsequent trial by women for his historical role in subjugating women.

Empty Hearts

Author : Juli Zeh
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0385544545
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Empty Hearts written by Juli Zeh and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists A few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit. There's a global financial crisis, armed conflict, and mass migration, and an ultrapopulist movement governs in Germany. With their democracy facing the wrecking ball, most well-off Germans turn inward, focusing on their own lives. Britta, a wife, mother, and successful businesswoman, ignores the daily news and concentrates on her family and her work running a clinic specializing in suicide prevention. But her legitimate business is connected to a secret and far more lucrative operation known as The Bridge, an outfit that supplies terrorist organizations looking to employ suicide bombers. Using a complex candidate-identifying algorithm designed by Babak, a brilliant programmer and Britta's only employee, The Bridge has effectively cornered the market, and terrorism never takes place without Britta's services—which is why news of a thwarted suicide attack in Leipzig comes as a shock. Then The Bridge's database is stolen, driving Britta, Babak, and their latest recruit into hiding. On their heels is a new terrorist organization called the Empty Hearts, a group unlike any Britta and Babak have encountered before. Part suspenseful thriller, part wickedly effective social satire, Empty Hearts is a novel for our times, examining urgent questions of morality, politics, and culture and presenting a startling vision of a future where empathy is a thing of the past.

Crabwalk

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156029704
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Crabwalk written by Günter Grass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by critics and readers alike as Gnter Grass's best book since The Tin Drum, Crabwalk is an engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and a critical meditation on Germany's struggle with its wartime memories. The Gustloff, a German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, was attacked by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. Some nine thousand people went down in the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest maritime disaster of all time. Born to an unwed mother on a lifeboat the night of the attack, Paul Pokriefke is a middle-aged journalist trying to piece together the tragic events. For his teenage son, who dabbles in the dark, far-right corners of the Internet, the Gustloff embodies the denial of Germany's suffering. Crabwalk is at once a captivating tale of a tragedy at sea and a fearless examination of the ways different generations of Germans now view their past.

The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe

Author : Jos Joosten
Publisher : Radboud Studies in Humanities
ISBN 13 : 9789004291881
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe written by Jos Joosten and published by Radboud Studies in Humanities. This book was released on 2016 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe presents an overview of the critical reception of G

Study Guide to The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1645421775
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Study Guide to The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass written by Intelligent Education and published by Influence Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, the most widely read postwar German novel. As a novel, The Tin Drum is a memoir of a man living in an insane asylum with supernatural powers who grew up in Nazi Germany. Moreover, Grass uses allusion and metaphor to comment on modern society, history, the individual, and the government. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Grass’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.