Study Guide to The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, the most widely read postwar German novel.

As a novel, The Tin Drum is a memoir of a man living in an insane asylum with supernatural powers who grew up in Nazi Germany. Moreover, Grass uses allusion and metaphor to comment on modern society, history, the individual, and the government.