A Mythic Journey: Gunter Grass'S Tin Drum

Although The Tin Drum has often been called one of the great novels of the 20th century, most critics have been baffled in attempting to draw its apparent chaos into a single literary framework. By reading The Tin Drum as both modern myth and historical epic, Edward Diller provides a profound and sensitive interpretation of one of the masterpieces of 20th century literature.