Revue de presse :
"Given Grass's close involvement with this new translation, it is fair to call this the definitive version of arguably the most important German novel of the post-war era." (Phil Mongredien Observer Review)
"Mitchell has captured the novel's syncopated, driving rhythms with an extra brio and brilliance." (Boyd Tonkin Independent)
"The Tin Drum has had an enduring impact on international fiction, and to read this new translation is to experience a novel you may or may not already know and discover a living, talking, shouting work of art." (Irish Times, Books of the Year)
"Grass published his milestone of postwar literature 50 years ago, and the event is being celebrated with new translations...Mitchell's excellent translation reveals the novel as a timeless masterpiece." (The Times)
"At the ages of fourteen and fifteen, I had read Great Expectations twice - Dickens made me want to be a writer - but it was reading The Tin Drum at nineteen and twenty that showed me how. It was Günter Grass who demonstrated that it was possible to be a living writer who wrote with Dickens' full range of emotion and relentless outpouring of language. Grass wrote with fury, love, derision, slapstick, pathos - all with an unforgiving conscience." (John Irving, New York Times Book Review)
Quatrième de couverture :
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR AND A NEW TRANSLATION BY BREON MITCHELL
'Grass wrote with fury, love, derision, slapstick, pathos - all with an unforgiving conscience'
John Irving
On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures is post-war Germany.
'To read this new translation is to experience a novel you may or may not already know and discover a living, talking, shouting work of art'
Irish Times
See also: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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