The Tin Drum - Couverture rigide

Grass, Günter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846553172 ISBN 13 : 9781846553172

Editeur : Harvill Secker, 2009

Synopsis

Beginning with the unforgettable words 'Granted: I'm an inmate in a mental institution', "The Tin Drum", the narrative of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. On his third birthday Oskar resolves to stunt his own growth at three feet, and on the same day he receives his first tin drum. Wielding his drum and piercing scream as anarchic weapons, he draws forth memories from the past as well as judgements about the horrors, injustices, and eccentricities he observes through the long nightmare of the Nazi era. Oskar participates in the German post-war economic miracle - working variously in the black market, as an artist's model, in a troupe of travelling musicians - yet he remains haunted by the deaths of his parents, afflicted by his responsibility for past sins. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of publication, Harvill Secker, along with Grass' publishers all over the world, is bringing out a new translation of this classic novel. The acclaimed translator and scholar, Breon Mitchell, has drawn from many sources: from a wealth of detailed scholarship; from a wide range of newly available reference works; and from discussion with the author himself. After fifty years, "The Tin Drum" has, if anything, gained in power and relevance.

A propos du livre

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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvill Secker
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1846553172
• ISBN 13: 9781846553172
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 592