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Key facts
- Author
- Günter Grass
- Original title
- Die Blechtrommel
- Translator
- Ralph Manheim, Breon Mitchell
- Cover artist
- Günter Grass
- Language
- German
- Series
- Danzig Trilogy
- Genre
- Magic realism
- Publisher
- Hermann Luchterhand Verlag
- Publication place
- West Germany
- Followed by
- Cat and Mouse
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Günter Grass
- Genre
- historical fiction
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Series
- Danzig Trilogy
- Followed by
- Cat and Mouse
- Main subject
- inner emigration
- Depicts
- human sexuality
- Narrative location
- Gerresheim
- Image
- Guenter Grass, Die Blechtrommel 1959.jpg
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- title
- El tambor de hojalata
- inception
- 1950-00-00
- publication date
- 1959-00-00
- language of work or name
- German
- influenced by
- Alfred Döblin
- uses
- flashback
- set in period
- flight and expulsion of Germans
- quotes work
- Tom Thumb
- derivative work
- The Tin Drum
- first line
- Zugegeben: ich bin Insasse einer Heil- und Pflegeanstalt, mein Pfleger beobachtet mich, läßt mich kaum aus dem Auge; denn in der Tür ist ein Guckloch, und meines Pflegers Auge ist von jenem Braun, welches mich, den Blauäugigen, nicht durchschauen kann.
- last line
- Während die Kinder, wenn singen, nicht mehr singen: Ist die Schwarze Köchin da? Ja - Ja - Ja!
- number of parts of this work
- 46
- narrative motif
- Anguilla
- Commons category
- Die Blechtrommel
- references work, tradition or theory
- bildungsroman
- form of creative work
- novel
- set in environment
- psychiatric hospital
- different from
- The Tin Drum
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Encyclopedic overview
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Tin Drum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.