Die Blechtrommel
by Günter Grass · first published 1959
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Die Blechtrommel ist ein Roman von Günter Grass. Er erschien 1959 als Auftakt der Danziger Trilogie und gehört zu den meistgelesenen Romanen der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur. Der Roman lässt sich als historischer Roman, Zeitroman, Schelmenroman und Entwicklungsroman charakterisieren.
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…language literature. Jelinek writes mostly about Austria and not Germany. If you want to read modern German literature there are a lot of other authors: Goetz, Tellkamp, Kehlmann, Müller, ... Actually 'Die Blechtrommel' is great German literature. Highly recommended. > Grass was a supreme example of everything wrong with this nation Definitely not. Grass had his problems, but he a lot of good sides, too. It's not…
on “Günter Grass: From Enfant Terrible to Grand Old Man” ↗…conspiracy theories which my wife believes is that Gartenzwerge indicate linksextreme sympathies; guess she never read HPR or Herr Resch would be an obvious counterexample? (in the States, I had to read GG's Die Blechtrommel, so maybe if I dip into HPR I'll stick with Das Pferd Max) EDIT2: from the slatestarcodex creation myth: "they multiplied far past the numbers of those who had stayed in the swampland" — strictly speaking,…