The Tin Drum
This is a book worth its legend. We both read and been fascinated, so we can't avoid suggesting to whoever will pass by this pointless blog.
It's a book about... well it's the main character that tells his story from the sanatorium. A very remarkable story, full of high and low, extremely rich and dense in a book you feel compelled to turn page after page. Only to be sadly disappointed when it is over.
Beating the tin drum meant trying to get attention on some cause, and the protagonist just do that... while refusing to grow after the age of 3, he continues to play his drum and to use his voice as a weapon.
All these things sound a bit uninteresting, mere tricks, but they are much more, they mean something. To 'visualise' what they stand for, you have to read the book.
The protagonist is surrounded by many people and of all kind, each is so well described and characterized along the story of this man that you can only feel trapped. Places also play a major role in the book, as much as the traditions in one of the most turbulent times for Danzig, for Poland and Germany: he was born in the 20s and his life, as you can guess span through the war and its aftermath.
There are so many meaning in a so enchanting storytelling and you will feel kidnapped by the pen of Gunter Grass and the strange, yet perfectly reasonable story of the protagonists and his family and friends. Read it and then well.. watch the movie. He won an Oscar in 1979... by the way, Oscar is the name of the protagonist. Then obviously read the other 2 books from Gunter Grass that belong to the Danzig Trilogy (here soon!).
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