{"product_id":"tambor-de-hojalata-el","title":"The Tin Drum (Danzig Trilogy 1)","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterpiece of contemporary literature, the emblematic novel by Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\"Grass writes with fury, love, contempt, a sense of comedy and tragedy... and all with relentless consciousness.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Irving\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOskar Matzerath, one of the most endearing literary characters of our time, is a child who refuses to grow up because he dislikes the petty-bourgeois society of Nazism. He is also a mischievous dwarf who smashes windows; a vulnerable being, always in love with a woman he idealizes; a gifted individual obsessed with sex; a being with dark eyelashes and beautiful hands, and a repulsive hunchback; a killer above all morality who does not hesitate to eliminate anyone who bothers him, yet manages to create captivating music with his drum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished in 1959, the novel was an immediate success and inaugurated new German literature. Half a century later, its fascination has not diminished. What once seemed provocative, pornographic, or blasphemous is now almost anecdotal, but the superb style, the genius, the lucidity of its cruel criticism, and the unrestrained imagination remain. Oskar Matzerath continues to drum, and his drumming continues to stir.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For having painted the forgotten face of history in fables of black-tinged joy. Grass undertakes the broad task of revising the history of his time by remembering the ignored and forgotten: the victims, the losers, and the lies people wish to forget because they once believed in them.\"\u003cbr\u003eSwedish Academy of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1999)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wonderfully written adventure book and, in some passages, it anticipatorily touches on what today would be called magical realism.\"\u003cbr\u003eMiguel Sáenz, \u003ci\u003eEl País\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Grass's secret lies in the precarious and unique balance he has managed to create between his anarchic imaginative force and his superior artistic reasoning.\"\u003cbr\u003eHans Magnus Enzensberger\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An author who has exemplarily taken responsibility for German credibility in the world.\"\u003cbr\u003eAdolf Muschg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Give yourselves a gift, read this magnificent novel and enjoy an extraordinary work and author.\"\u003cbr\u003eAntonio Bazaga, \u003ci\u003eEl Asmobrario - Público\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A colossal novel. There are some chapters that have become so visually and intensely installed within me that I feel like I've lived them. After reading this novel, you won't be able to look an eel in the eye again.\"\u003cbr\u003eLuis Piedrahita\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Grass writes as a witness of his time. His literary project stands against oblivion and the silencing of the past.\"\u003cbr\u003eCecilia Dreymuller\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"At fourteen and fifteen, I had read \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e twice (Dickens made me want to be a writer), but it was reading \u003ci\u003eThe Tin Drum\u003c\/i\u003e, at nineteen and twenty, that showed me how to do it. It was Günter Grass who taught me that it was possible to be a living writer and write with all the emotion and overflowing language of Dickens.\"\u003cbr\u003eJohn Irving\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Günter Grass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43536081322232,"sku":"9788466330725","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/P33072A.jpg?v=1671633502","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/tambor-de-hojalata-el","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}