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Die Blechtrommel

By: Günter Grass
Narrated by: Günter Grass
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 Oskar Matzerath ist anders. Mit drei Jahren beschließt er, nicht weiter zu wachsen. Der groteske Außenseiter betrachtet die Welt mit schonungslos-sarkastischem Blick "von unten". Sein ständiger Begleiter ist eine Blechtrommel. Mit ihr ertrommelt er sich Distanz, fordert, schreckt auf. Wird sie ihm genommen, setzt er sich mit einem Schrei zur Wehr, der Glas zerspringen lässt. So absonderlich der zornige Zwerg ist, so frei ist er. Oskar ist ein unerbittlich scharfsinniger Beobachter des Danziger Kleinbürgertums im "Dritten Reich".

Günter Grass liest sein erfolgreichstes Werk: ein kunstvoll erzähltes Stück Weltgeschichte mit einem Helden, wie es ihn nie zuvor gab.©2018 Steidl (P)2018 DAV Absurdist Classics Genre Fiction

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This has been a longstanding ambition: to read ‘Die Blechtrommel’ in the original. I read the Manheim English translation over fifty years ago and knew no German at that time. It made a big impression.

I can read ordinary Krimis in German now without much difficulty but the complexity and invention of Grass is on quite another level. To have the book read to me by the author was simply magical. It has been so worth the time and effort. I finished the last part in Danzig/Gdansk. By design.
One of the reading experiences of my life.

Outstanding!

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