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. Here is the full—length study to penetrate the brilliance of Gunter Grass's style and uncover the novel's mythopoetic core.
In
A Mythic Journey: Gunter Grass's Tin Drum
, author Edward Diller convincingly demonstrates the still valid relationship between modern and classical literary criticism. By reading
as both modern myth and historical epic, he provides a profound and sensitive interpretation of one of the masterpieces of 20th century literature.