One of the greatest modern novels, The Tin Drum is the story 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. Matzerath provides a profound yet hilarious
perspective on both German history and the human condition in the
modern world. In this edition, Breon Mitchell, acclaimed translator
and scholar, draws from a wealth of detailed scholarship to produce
a translation that is more faithful to Grass's style and rhythm
than the 1959 translation, restoring omissions and reflecting the
complexity of the original work. After more than sixty years, The
Tin Drum has, if anything, gained in power and relevance. All of
Grass's amazing evocations are still there, and still amazing:
Oskar Matzerath, the indomitable drummer; his grandmother, Anna
Koljaiczek; his mother, Agnes; Alfred Matzerath and Jan Bronski,
his presumptive fathers; Oskar's midget friends--Bebra, the great
circus master and Roswitha Raguna, the famous somnambulist; Sister
Scholastica and Sister Agatha, the Right Reverend Father Wiehnke;
the Greffs, the Schefflers, Herr Fajngold, all Kashubians, Poles,
Germans, and Jews--waiting to be discovered and re-discovered.
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