#Oskar Matzerath

[chthonic-cassandra]

The point about the protean in literature, the point Shakespeare grasped and allowed all of us who follow him to grasp as well, is that life's like that, life itself is not one thing but many, not singular but multiform, not constant but infinitely mutable. It's a ghost story and a love story and a political saga and a family saga, it's comedy and tragedy at the same time, it's not realistic, not in the sense in which that word is used by those who sit in judgment over such things, not realistic in that sense at all. Family life isn't "realistic" either. We pretend it is, we all do, inventing one of the governing fictions of what gets called "reality," the fiction of Ordinary Life. We all pretend that these Ordinary Lives are the lives we "really" have, the lives we "really" lead but we all secretly know the truth, which is that once we get through the front door of the family and close it behind us, it's mayhem in there, it isn't Ordinary at all it's overblown and operatic and monstrous and almost too much to bear; there are mad grandfathers in there, and wicked aunts and corrupt brothers and nymphomaniac sisters, there are young men who refuse to eat their disgusting lunch and retreat instead into the trees, to remain there for the rest of their lives, like the title character in Calvino's The Baron in the Trees; there are giant Rabelaisian families, Gargantuan, Pantagruelian, giant belchers, breakers of giant winds, and there are screaming boys of stunted growth beating on tin drums, as Oskar Matzerath does In Grass' great novel, boys who choose to remain small, dwarfed by the horror of their times, and there are mothers, like Úrsula Iguarán, the matriarch of One Hundred Years of Solitude, the sane center of an insane world; there are untimely deaths and bizarre accidents, there's jealousy and incest and bitter lifelong hatred, injuries are inflicted from which we never recover, eve when in our turn we inflict such injuries upon others, and it's noisy and intuitive in there, inside the Family, and sometimes we flee from it, we cross continents and oceans to escape it and then, very carefully, we build a new version of it for ourselves, because the trouble with trying to escape from yourself is that you take yourself along for the ride. Oh, and there's love and care and support and tenderness also, yes, I don't forget that.

Salman Rushdie, "Proteus" in Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

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[inmynoggin]

THE TIN DRUM BY GÜNTER GRASS

This novel, often described as one of the greatest of the last half of the 20 century, is quite unlike anything I’ve ever read. It has such life (or, as David Lodge described it, anti-life) that it almost seems to be throbbing as it sits on my desk next to me. I wish I could write a whole academic paper on this novel, but unfortunately my brain cannot seem to collate my ideas into a structured constellation of opinions and so I’ll just have to attempt a structured word vomit.

The first thing that Grass has an immeasurable talent in is conveying very powerful images with his words. There were many images and descriptions in this novel (most of them disturbing in some way), but I think it can be agreed that the jewel in the crown is the horse’s head. I can still see in my mind’s eye the gruesome image of an eel, coated in a porridge-like substance, being wrenched from a decapitated horse’s ear. Truly scarring for the reader and the characters alike. But what’s really skilful is the fact that it makes total sense (or at least as much sense as is possible in an absurdist book such as this). When Oskar, Jan, Matzerath and Mama are walking along that beach, headed toward this fateful symbol of his mother’s life, it feels seamless. I could understand it’s relevance in that moment, even if I didn’t know the relevance it would hold later on. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to un-see that black, glossy mane, writhing with eels. 

What gave the book such depth and longevity was not the fact that it was over 500 pages, because many books are that long but don’t contain this same level of complexity, but really the detail. Now, I may be just repeating myself over and over because really everything that can be praised about this novel is directly the outcome of Grass’ masterful way of writing. With such few pages, Grass was able to tell an entire life story, to the point where Oskar’s life feels just as complex as a real person. I know that that’s what a writer should be able to do, but it’s very rare that they pull it off with such conviction. You know that unnerving feeling you get when you really stop and think for a second about the fact that every person around you has just as complex a life and existence as you? Well, Grass was able to embody that feeling in this novel. I can agree that many writers are able to create a three-dimensional character, whom I believe is living and breathing before me, but it is rare that it ever reaches the level reached with Oskar Matzerath. That probably made no sense, but if you’ve read this, then it will have to some extent.

Without spoiling it too much, I was also very satisfied with the ending. A lot of absurd novels like this tend to fall into a habit of ‘absurding’ their way out of complex situations that are hard to rationally get out of. The Tin Drum may have had some of those moments occasionally, but I really liked how Grass put in the work to make the novel come full circle - going into the same amount of depth as he had during the main body of the novel to conclude with a strong, clear ending. I loved the side-by-side image at the end of Oskar on the escalator, his thirtieth birthday, his whole life behind him, and his whole life in front of him. Overall just a really effective ending. 

I love it when you can tell when a writer has put specific thought and care into a narrative, and hasn’t just gotten lazy. I know that any novel at this level of prestige won’t be written lazily but I really liked the creativity that Grass employed when describing the three main deaths. They were all so potent and striking in their individual ways that, from a writing standpoint, I am in awe. 

As you could probably tell, there’s not much I can criticise it for. However, online there were points brought up by others. A frequent one is that the novel tries to down-play the atrocities of the Holocaust. I think that it’s easier to understand this criticism when you take into consideration the controversies surrounding Grass’ own life, but I can’t really comment on my own because I simply didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary with his narrative of the Second World War. Maybe it was because I believed that whatever spin was put on the War in the novel was a direct portrayal of the unreliable narrator of Oskar, rather than Grass’ own personal views coming through. 

Another criticism was that the novel slowed down too much after the end of the war. I could agree to a certain extent by saying that I felt a tingle of fatigue towards the end of the second ‘book’ and the beginning of the third ‘book’ but I certainly wouldn’t say that the content was irrelevant or unnecessary. I think that it showed Oskar’s life as it was after the war; drawn-out, hopeless, searching. 

Many have said that The Tin Drum has encapsulated everything that needs to be said about the 20th century in just three words: barbaric, mystical, bored.

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[theoscarsproject]

The Tin Drum (1979). In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about this movie, but it's one that I've thought about a lot in the few days since I watched it, so that alone says a lot. It's certainly interesting, and it really leans into its surrealism in a way that feels refreshingly bold. It's wild to think it was nominated for an Oscar, because I can't see the Academy responding to something like this today. 7/10.

[pensamientosliterarios]

¿Lo conocías? Oskar Matzerath, uno de los personajes literarios más entrañables de nuestro tiempo, es un niño que se resiste a crecer porque la sociedad pequeñoburguesa del nazismo no le gusta. También es un malévolo enano que destroza cristales; un ser vulnerable, enamorado siempre de alguna mujer a la que idealiza; un superdotado obsesionado por el sexo; un ser de pestañas negras y bellas manos y un repulsivo jorobado; un asesino por encima de cualquier moralidad que no vacila en eliminar a quien lo molesta pero consigue crear con su tambor una música arrebatadora. Publicada en 1959, la novela cosechó un éxito inmediato e inauguró la nueva literatura alemana. Medio siglo después, la fascinación que despierta no ha terminado. Lo que antes parecía provocador, pornográfico o blasfemo resulta casi anecdótico, pero quedan el soberbio estilo, la genialidad, la lucidez de su crítica cruel y la irrefrenable imaginación. Oskar Matzerath sigue redoblando y su redoble continúa estremeciendo. #libros #literatura #literature #booklovers #books #librodeldía #librosenespañol #pensamientosliterarios #PensamientosLiterariosRecomienda #GünterGrass #LibrosRecomendados #Recomendados #eltambordehojalata https://www.instagram.com/p/B3FoycHDZuU/?igshid=186lgbbdsxrkz

[mihretsgermanlitblog]

We'll see who the father is—this Herr Matzerath or me, Oskar Bronski.

Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum (262)

[fishing-exposed]

@JeffreyLuscombe: And all this time I thought "The Little Drummer Boy" was about Oskar Matzerath. Literary folks, what was the significance of his drum being red and white? #PaRumPumPumPum #TheTinDrum https://t.co/VheVOqkCSb

[cryingoflot49]

I am willing to agree that the clock is probably the most remarkable thing that grown-ups ever produced. Grown-ups have it in them to be creative, and sometimes, with the help of ambition, hard work, and a bit of luck they actually are, but being grown-ups, they have no sooner created some epoch-making invention than they become a slave to it.

Oskar Matzerath in The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

[magodelaselva]

✅▷ Conservación y bancarrota y especies amenazadas – águila esteparia

▷ Así como Oskar Matzerath tenía su tambor de hojalata para comunicarse, yo tengo ahora el mío . No es que me sienta censurado, pero la decencia y el respeto a veces nos limitan.

[erik595]

Romanzo epocale, "Il tamburo di latta",in modo umoristico e grottesco, narra la vicenda del protagonista Oskar Matzerath, il tamburino inseparabile dal suo tamburo e con una voce potentissima che manda in frantumi i vetri. Dal manicomio dove è rinchiuso Oskar rievoca la propria storia, indissolubilmente intrecciata alla storia tedesca della prima metà del Novecento. Scorrono così nel fiume del suo racconto immagini memorabili, a partire da fatti leggendari come il concepimento e la nascita della madre sotto le quattro gonne della nonna, passando per la sua venuta al mondo ricca di presagi, fino all'ascesa irresistibile del nazismo e al crollo della Germania. È stato nel giorno del suo terzo compleanno che Oskar, in odio alla famiglia, al padre, alla società ipocrita, ha deciso di non crescere più. Da quell'osservatorio particolare che è la città polacco-tedesca di Danzica e poi da Düsseldorf, grazie alla sua prospettiva anomala di nano, può guardare al mondo degli uomini dal basso e scorgerne così meglio le miserie e gli orrori, mentre la sua deformità si staglia contro la ripugnanza della normalità piccolo-borghese. Con occhi disincantati e spalancati sulla ferocia e violenza del mondo grida una rabbia che non risparmia la viltà e la corruzione di nessuno, neppure le proprie. Di questa pietra miliare della letteratura contemporanea viene ora proposta una nuova traduzione. #güntergrass #guntergrass #grass #libro #libri #libros #book #books #bookstagram #bookish #bookshelves #bookporn #bookshelf #bookphotography #booklover #bookworm #bookblogger #bookaholic #autore #author #writer #escritor #scrittore #germany #germania #library #libreria #consiglidilettura #libridaleggere https://www.instagram.com/p/BuRg6cQF4oP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rbwrp2ayg1mg

[edeo]

Donde esta Oskar Matzerath? #GunterGrass #DieBlechtrommel

[jareckiworld]

The Krasnals -  Blaszany bębenek / Oskar Matzerath    (oil on canvas, 2010)

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💗 if you could hug anyone, who would it be?

“ well  i’m  not  much  of  a  hugger  BUT  if  i  have  to  choose,  i’m  gonna  say  DOLLY  PARTON.  i  just  get  the  feeling  she’d  probably  pop  or  something  and  it’d  be  fucking  hilarious  —  or  if  you  want  me  to  be  generic  we  can  go  with  the  cat  that  i’ve  taken  under  my  wing.  i  call  him  hades.”

🐹 what are some of your favourite Pokémon and why?

“ the  yellow  one?  i  don’t  know.  i  don’t  play  pokemon —  mainly  because  i  ACTUALLY  have  a  life  and  am  not  SEVEN  years  old.  sorry  to  disappoint  you.”

☀️ what do you like the most about your best friend?

“  honestly?  they  get  me.  which  is  an  hard  thing  for  anyone  to  do,  including  myself.  i  do  a  lot  shitty  things  and  they  don’t  condone  them  but  they  try  to  understand  why  i  do  them  instead  of  just  writing  me  off  as  a  piece  of  shit  like  everyone  else.  i  probably  DEFINITELY  don’t  deserve  them.  guess  i’m  lucky  —  AND  now  i’m  nauseous.”

😘 talk about your crush or partner

“  there’s  not  a  lot  to  talk  about.  i’m  twenty  four  years  old  so  i  don’t  do  crushes  &  when  it  comes  to  a  partner  —  well  i  don’t  have  one.  completely  unattatched.  UNLESS  of  course  you’re  talking  about  sexual  partners.  in  that  case  you’re  gonna  have  to  be  more  specific,  there’s  been  a  few.”

📚 share 3 books that you love and your favourite quote from them.

“  mary  shelly’s  frankenstien  — ‘nothing  is  so  painful  to  the  human  mind  as  a  great  and  sudden  change.’   

oskar  matzerath’s  the  tin  drum —  ‘i  asked  the  satan  within  me:  'did  you  get  through  it  all  right?’

AND  james  joyce’s   ulysses ,  or  what  i’ve  read  of  it  ( no  one  finishes  that  book )          —  ‘history,  stephen  said,  is  a  nightmare  from  which  I  am  trying  to  awake.’  ”

[azulblue9]

Prince - Nude Tour, Niedersachsenstadion Hannover, (West) Germany 10 June 1990 ... 28 years ago today!

Prince (vox, guitar, piano), Michael B. (drums), Levi Seacer, Jr.(bass, vox), Miko Weaver (guitar, vox), Dr. Fink (keyboards), Rosie Gaines (keyboards, vox), Tony M. (dance, rap), Damon Dickson(dance, vox), Kirk Johnson (dance, percussion) (Tony, Damon and Kirk together as Game Boyz)

Hannover

"Dreamer in the jungle of pop"

"What advice do you give me where to go?" He asked. "To the planet Earth," replied the geographer, "he has a good reputation ..." And the little prince got up and thought of his flower.

So he came among the people, and here he stands: Prince Rogers Nelson, 160 cm star from another star, laden with the glitter cloths of the myths on which the pot factories and their advertising departments weave untiringly: Diva and Sexartist, Narcissus and Pout, Sound surgeon and alchemist, genius and charlatan, Roncalli character and Lucifer.

There it stands, it has become dark and cool in the Lower Saxony Stadium, and everything is a little bit true, and everything is quite different. No silver slip, no stocking, no wet fumbling and no satanic grumbling. In shirt and pants he stands alone in the white spot, like ebony shimmers the hair, the wind drives through him, a good prince, a dream prince stands there, and he sings "Purple Rain", as if he were alone in the world, holy and it almost blesses us with divine gesture, and it is not without kitsch - and yet it is unexpectedly beautiful.

"Good day," he said at random. "Good day ... good day ... good day ...," the echo answered. "Who are you?" Said the little prince. "Who are you ... Who are you ... Who are you?" the echo replied. "Be my friends, I'm alone," he said.

That night, Prince plays the role of the lonely Narcissus, not the Devil's. The show is youth-free and features the Disneyland aesthetics that are as childish as they are lovable. The loudspeaker tower to the left of the stage is covered with a brown cloth, on it an eye, from which blue tears drip. Towels hang on the stage background, on which, dark and about, archways and castle walls are painted.

A catwalk leads around the stage, a few golden steps and slide bars connect it to the stage floor. Azure lights on the left wing, the headlights shine in all colors of the candy industry. Fog billows thick and permanent, Scottish Highlands in November, at least. A bat does not terrify us very much, and a big heart rising to "Nothing Compares 2 U" above the center of the stage does not particularly delight us, and yet it is not without its charm, it is as naive as it is suggestive.

In this setting, Prince lets three black dancers jump, turns himself around the axis, runs from left to right and from top to bottom, goes into the splits, beckons, as if he wants to greet someone by watching TV, kneels like Jimi Hendrix on the floor, like Michelle Pfeiffer lolls on the flights1, but all this remains second-hand excitement, always transparent, even ironically staged and far from any lust.

That's good, because it keeps your senses free for the music. And Prince Moglie, being between man and woman, childhood and age, black and white, knows how to roar with the bears in the jungle of pop. Prince Oskar Matzerath knows how to drum his life in the hostile world of adulthood, and he knows how to shatter glass. Be my friends, call Prince, I'm alone, and after the first guitar riff of "1999", after the electrifying hiphop rhythms of "Housequake", he is not anymore. In the stadium, whose acoustics play along this evening, he has the crowd immediately at his side.

He chases her breathlessly through a potpourri of his hits, which in turn are a potpourri of pop history. Zappa and Hendrix, James Brown and Aretha Franklin stick their heads out somewhere between bat and wing. 

Yes, Prince is an eclectic, a collector and dealer more than an inventor, and sometimes he also puts junk out for sale ("Batman") A dealer by trade, despite all this, and where does eclecticism have merit, if not in this style mix that's called pop? Prince mixes, but that's how colors are made. "Nothing Compares 2 U" he sings on the Blue Wings, the song that Sinéad O'Connor made famous, the tear drops blue, but it still touches, it wakes up the little prince, the child in us This is raging in a raging rock-funk-soul finale, which Prince seems to break off again and again until the kid screams in us, "More !, more!" and he redeems us.

Party in the ghost castle in Scotland. Tens of thousands dance to exhaustion in the dream that no one can tell properly and that means everything to them."That's a very big secret. 

“ For you who love the little Prince as well as for me ... But none of the great people will ever understand that this is so important! "

Gunter Reus

Source:http://www.haz.de/Hannover/Aus-der-Stadt/Uebersicht/Konzert-von-Prince-1990-im-Niedersachsen-Stadion-in-Hannover

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50 Years of Books to Remember by The New York Public Library

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The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende                The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) is the debut novel by Isabel Allende. Initially, the novel was rejected by several Spanish-language publishers, but became an instant best ...                - 32. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera                The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), by Milan Kundera, is a philosophic novel about a man and his two women and their lives in the Prague Spring of the Czechoslovak Communist period in 1968. ...                - 33. Beloved by Toni Morrison                Beloved (1987) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. The novel, her fifth, is loosely based on the life and legal case of the slave Margaret Garner, about whom Morrison...                - 34. And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts                And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is a nonfiction book written by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts, published in 1987. It chronicles the discovery and s...                - 35. Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris                                - 36. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes                The Making of the Atomic Bomb, a book written by Richard Rhodes, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. The 900-page bo...                - 37. Citizens by Simon Schama                Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is a book by the historian Simon Schama. It was published in 1989, the bicentenary of the French Revolution, and like many other works in that year, w...                - 38. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro                The Remains of the Day (1989) is the third published novel by Japanese-British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The Remains of The Day is one of the most highly-regarded post-war British novels. It won the B...                - 39. The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies                The Cunning Man, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1994, is the last novel written by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. The Cunning Man is the memoir of the life of a doctor, Dr. Jonathan...                - 40. Race Matters by Cornel West                Race Matters is a 1994 social sciences book, authored by Cornel West. The book was first published on March 29, 1994 in the English language by Vintage Books. The book analyses moral authority and ...                - 41. The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie                The Moor's Last Sigh is a 1995 novel by Salman Rushdie. Set in the Indian city of Bombay (or "Mumbai") and Cochin (or "Kochi"), it is the first major work that Rushdie produced after the The Satani...                - 42. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky                A book about Cod.                - 43. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond                Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998 it won a Pulitze...                - 44. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde                Audre Geraldine Lorde (February 18, 1934 - November 17, 1992) was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist.                - 45. Rising Tide by John Barry                Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America                - 46. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver                The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver is a bestselling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from Georgia to the fictional village of Kilanga in the Belgian Cong...                - 47. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch                We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda is a 1998 non-fiction book about the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda in 1994, wr...                - 48. On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove                                - 49. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth                The Plot Against America is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. It is an alternate history in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindb...                -