The first part of the Danzig Trilogy by Günter Grass, The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel) is a 1959 novel.

A man of remarkable versatility, Grass was a poet, playwright, social critic, graphic artist, and novelist. Anita Desai observes that lame Lenny who is Bapsi Sidhwa’s autobiographically based heroine can be related to Oscar of Gunther Grass’s Tin Drum. 100 German Must-Reads Günter Grass: 'The Tin Drum' A novel that had the impact of a bomb. Anita Desai observes that lame Lenny who is Bapsi Sidhwa's autobiographically based heroine can be related to Oscar of Gunther Grass's Tin Drum. Günter Grass adaptated by Oliver Reese The Berliner Ensemble The Coronet Theatre 24 to 29 February 2020. I n spite of restoring some 20 minutes of footage that had been previously cut to please distributors, Volker Schlöndorff’s director’s cut of his 1979 classic, The Tin Drum, adapted from the eponymous novel by Günter Grass, doesn’t cast the story in a new light, though it does deepen a few of its subplots. Sidhwa uses the child-narrator technique in the narrative of the novel. Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass, best known for his book "The Tin Drum," has died at age 87 at a hospital in Luebeck, Germany. The Tin Drum is a big film loaded with symbols and multiple layers of meaning, and is really something you need to experience for yourself, with as few preconceptions as possible. The Tin Drum, which earned the Palme d’Or at Cannes and the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, is Volker Schlöndorff’s visionary adaptation of Nobel laureate Günter Grass’s acclaimed novel, characterized by surreal imagery, arresting eroticism, and clear-eyed satire. Sidhwa uses the child-narrator technique in the narrative of the novel. Tin Drum definitely has no Neverever Land where Captain Hook lives to defeat Peter Pan nor the lost boys who like him never wants to … He claims from the get-go that he can only remember the earliest parts of his life by drumming on his tin drum. There are three strands in the novel namely political, narrative and the child narrator. It is a serious political novel. The novel is the first book of Grass's Danziger Trilogie (Danzig Trilogy), and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. 100 German Must-Reads Günter Grass: 'The Tin Drum' A novel that had the impact of a bomb. Clearly, Tin Drum is not highly as colorful or as playful as Peter Pan. GÜNTER GRASS (1927–2015), Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer, attained worldwide renown with the publication of his novel The Tin Drum in 1959. Oskar was born in 1924, in the Free City of Danzig. Grass’s story is told on-screen in picaresque, fablelike fashion, in keeping with the novel. Surely, it lacks Wendy, the ever so loving and nice girl in blue dress, nor does it have flying fairies. Günter Grass’s iconoclastic novel The Tin Drum shook the moral complacency of the German people and forced them to acknowledge their responsibility for the triumph of Nazism. Narrated by Oskar Matzerath, a dwarf of questionable sanity. Prepare to dance to the beat of a different drum! The Tin Drum, is a 1959 novel, by Günter Grass. The novel is the first book of Grass's Danziger Trilogie (Danzig Trilogy), and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.