I read Gunter Grass' Tin Drum a bazillion years ago. It took me 4 years to wade through it and, at the end, I wound up wondering why I had expended the effort. I didn't see the point of the novel and wrote it off as a pretty good waste of time and energy on my part.
That doesn't have anything to do with him being a former nazi, but he isn't much of a writer (IMO), either!!
I actually saw the movie they made of the Tin Drum. Very disturbing. All I remember is that it was about a boy who suffered some sort of brain damage that prevented him from growing after he fell down some cellar stairs. He would beat on a tin drum and utter an era-splitting scream.
Perferct for the Nobel. Ask the Mayan. It helps to be a socialist. And he didn't want the west to link up with the commie east? I doubt it. This guy is just one big lie. And he's coming out with an autobiography? Ha, no-one will believe a word of it.
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Same here.
It was like dog paddling through pudding.