Grass G. G77 The Tin Drum: [novel] / Günter Grass; Translated from German. — M.: Alpina Non-Fiction, 2024. — 764 p. — (Series "Danzig Trilogy"). ISBN 978-5-00223-072-3 "The Tin Drum" is one of the most important novels of modern times, included in the postwar canon of European literature, first published in 1959. Its protagonist is the "little man" Oskar Matzerath, whose childhood falls in the years of the rise of National Socialism. Aware of the absurdity of reality, he decides to stop growing and refuses to become an adult. His constant companion is the tin drum: by beating its rhythm, Oskar expresses his attitude towards the surrounding world. With a merciless, sarcastic, and at the same time insightful observer’s gaze from "below," the life in the Third Reich, the atmosphere of the petty bourgeois world generating indifference to the ever-increasing terrible evil, is shown. The novel, reflecting in grotesque form the history of 20th century Germany, brought its author worldwide fame. UDC 821.112.2-311.1 BBK 84(4Ger)-444