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Oskar Matzerath: Writes his memoirs from 1952 to 1954, age 28 to 30, appearing as a zeitgeist throughout historic milestones. He is the novel's main protagonist and unreliable narrator. Bruno Munsterberg: Oskar's keeper, who watches him through a peep hole. He makes knot sculptures inspired by Oskar's stories.
The film centers on Oskar Matzerath, a boy born and raised in the Free City of Danzig prior to and during World War II, who recalls the story's events as an unreliable narrator. Oskar is the son of a half-Polish Kashubian woman, Agnes Bronski, who is married to a German chef named Alfred Matzerath.
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] Irving has confirmed the similarities. [2]
His works also show a sustained concern for the marginal and marginalized subjects, such as Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf in The Tin Drum, whose body was considered an aberration unworthy of life in the Nazi ideology, or the Roma and Sinti people deemed impure and unworthy by the Nazis and subjected to eugenics and genocide, as were the Jews. [33 ...
The protagonist, Oskar Matzerath, refuses to grow up and as such goes through many large events in history with the stature of a small child. [1] Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi. Trudi Montag is a dwarf who tries to survive in a small German town during World War II. [2] The Dwarf by Pär Lagerkvist. The entire novel is based around a ...
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 album's title is a reference to German writer Günter Grass' book Tin Drum, about the boy Oskar Matzerath, who distances himself from the horror of World War II. [5] The album was recorded in three places: Rīga , Ikšķile and Stockholm , and was produced by Swedish producers Povel Olson and David Larsson. [ 3 ]
In Gunther Grass's 1959 novel The Tin Drum, the protagonist Oskar Matzerath frequently refers to the Polish uhlans as well as their misreported charge on 1 September 1939. In Italo Calvino's 1979 novel If on a winter's night a traveler, Gritzvi (Outside the town of Malbork) prizes his uhlan helmet and is reluctant to leave it in Ponko's care.