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A review by parsnippers
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
4.0
“If Apollo strove for harmony and Dionysus for intoxication and chaos, Oskar was a diminutive demigod who harmonized chaos and intoxicated reason with one advantage, in addition to his mortality, over all the gods recognized throughout the ages: Oskar could read what he pleased, whereas the gods censored themselves”
At first I didn’t know what to make of this book (still don’t to be honest). A child decides he doesn’t want to run his father’s shop so he stops growing at 3 in order to play on his toy tin drum for the rest of his days. Oh, and he’s growing up in 1930’s Germany and is an extremely unreliable narrator. This was a challenge at times but worth the effort imo, incredibly funny in spurts, and the “protagonist’s” general lack of empathy is both off-putting yet understandable as he truly feels alone in this world, never really able to find a home or a people to call his who last. Also he entices a statue of Jesus to play the drums and perform a miracle. Lots of stuff happens in this book. It rocks. And yes I will continue to read what I please suck it haters
At first I didn’t know what to make of this book (still don’t to be honest). A child decides he doesn’t want to run his father’s shop so he stops growing at 3 in order to play on his toy tin drum for the rest of his days. Oh, and he’s growing up in 1930’s Germany and is an extremely unreliable narrator. This was a challenge at times but worth the effort imo, incredibly funny in spurts, and the “protagonist’s” general lack of empathy is both off-putting yet understandable as he truly feels alone in this world, never really able to find a home or a people to call his who last. Also he entices a statue of Jesus to play the drums and perform a miracle. Lots of stuff happens in this book. It rocks. And yes I will continue to read what I please suck it haters