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The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel, pronounced [diː ˈblɛçˌtʁɔml̩] ⓘ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film , which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.
The Danzig Trilogy (German: Danziger Trilogie) is series of novels and novellas by German author Günter Grass. The trilogy focuses on the interwar and wartime period in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). The three books in the trilogy are: The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), published in 1959; Cat and Mouse (Katz und Maus), published ...
Grass's best-known work is The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), published in 1959 (and adapted as a film of the same name by director Volker Schlöndorff in 1979). It was followed in 1961 by Cat and Mouse ( Katz und Maus ), a novella, and in 1963 by the novel Dog Years ( Hundejahre ).
The Polish defence of the post office was also sympathetically portrayed in Chapter 18 of The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass, 'The Defence of the Polish Post Office'. In the chapter, the protagonist Oskar Matzerath meets his presumptive father Jan Bronski as the latter heads home, trying to avoid fighting in the looming battle.
The novel is also an homage to Günter Grass's most famous novel, The Tin Drum. Grass was a great influence for John Irving, as well as a close friend. The main characters of both novels, Owen Meany and Oskar Matzerath, share the same initials as well as some other characteristics, and their stories show some parallels. [1]
Günter Grass (16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German writer, sculptor and graphic artist. He had an international breakthrough as a novelist with his Danzig Trilogy (1959–1963). He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1965 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999.
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Dog Years (German: Hundejahre) is a novel by Günter Grass. It was first published in Germany in 1963. Its English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was first published in 1965. [1] [2] It is the third and last volume of his Danzig Trilogy, the other two being The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse.