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The Tin Drum
- A New Translation by Breon Mitchell
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
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The Tin Drum deals with the rise of Nazism and with the war experience in the unique cultural setting of Danzig, by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the original publication of this runaway best seller, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, along with Grass' publishers all over the world, offer a new translation of this classic novel. Breon Mitchell, acclaimed translator and scholar, has drawn from many sources. The result is a translation that is faithful to Grass' style and rhythm, restores omissions, and reflects more fully the complexity of the original work. After 50 years, The Tin Drum has, if anything, gained in power and relevance.
Reseñas de la Crítica
This is a new translation of the classic novel, offered on the 50th anniversary of its original publication.
"Grass is one of the master fabulists of our age." (Times)
"The Tin Drum itself remains a very great novel, as daring and imaginative as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude or Toni Morrison's Beloved." (Washington Post)
"The Tin Drum will become one of the enduring literary works of the twentieth century." (Swedish Academy, awarding Günter Grass the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1999)
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Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse.
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- De Jabba en 05-17-15
De: Alexander Pushkin, y otros
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Doctor Faustus
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: Jacopo Calatroni
- Duración: 23 h y 45 m
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Nella Germania devastata alla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, il professor Serenus Zeitblom scrive la biografia dell'amico d'infanzia Adrian Leverkühn, un geniale musicista che in cambio dell'anima ha ottenuto dal diavolo ventiquattro anni di furore creativo. Reinterpretando in chiave moderna il mito di Faust, Thomas Mann narra una vicenda che per molti aspetti sembra anticipare il destino della Germania, travolta dalla follia hitleriana e dalla distruzione.
De: Thomas Mann
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Speak Memory
- An Autobiography Revisited
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov’s life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Luhzin Defense.
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Speak, Mnemosyne!
- De Darwin8u en 08-09-12
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea, a Severed Head & Something Special
- A BBC Radio Collection
- De: Iris Murdoch
- Narrado por: Catherine Cusack, Full Cast, John Wood, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
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Booker Prize-winning author Iris Murdoch is renowned for her sublime fiction, exploring themes such as art, passion, morality and human freedom. Included in this collection are adaptations of two of her finest novels and a reading of her only published short story, as well as an edition of Writers Revealed in which Murdoch discusses her ideas and beliefs.
De: Iris Murdoch
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The Drowned World
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
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First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard’s mesmerizing and ferociously imaginative novel not only gained him widespread critical acclaim but also established his reputation as one of the finest writers of a generation. The Drowned World imagines a terrifying world in which global warming has melted the ice caps and primordial jungles have overrun a tropical London. Set during the year 2145, this novel follows biologist Dr. Robert Kearns and his team of scientists as they confront a cityscape in which nature is on the rampage and giant lizards, dragonflies, and insects fiercely compete for domination.
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EGO AGAINST ID
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-05-16
De: J. G. Ballard
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Philosophical Investigations
- De: Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe - translator
- Narrado por: Jonathan Booth
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Philosophical Investigations was published in 1953, two years after the death of its author. In the preface written in Cambridge in 1945 where he was professor of philosophy he states: ‘Four years ago I had occasion to re-read my first book (the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) and to explain its ideas to someone. It suddenly seemed to me that I should publish those old thoughts and the new ones together: that the latter could be seen in the right light only by contrast with and against the background of my old way of thinking.’
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One of the Masterpieces of 20th Philosophy
- De Oberon en 12-30-20
De: Ludwig Wittgenstein, y otros
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
- De: Michael Hofmann - Translated by, Michael Hofmann - Afterword by, Alfred Döblin
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the 20th century, gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word drunk, pitchdark. In Michael Hofmann's extraordinary new translation, Alfred Döblin's masterpiece lives in English for the first time.
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Stephen Dadelus Has Nothing on Franz Biberkopf
- De Quijotic en 04-16-20
De: Michael Hofmann - Translated by, y otros
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The Book of Disquiet
- De: Fernando Pessoa
- Narrado por: Adam Sims
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the author’s death, The Book of Disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prose-poetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory. Credited to Pessoa’s alter ego, Bernardo Soares, who chronicles his contemplations in this so-called "factless" autobiography, the work is a journey of one man’s soul and, by extension, of all human souls that allow their minds and hearts to roam far and free.
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The book that saved my life
- De Hutchinson en 03-09-21
De: Fernando Pessoa
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The General in His Labyrinth
- A Novel
- De: Gabriel García Márquez
- Narrado por: Michael Manuel
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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Gabriel García Márquez’s most political novel is the tragic story of General Simón Bolívar, the man who tried to unite a continent. General Simon Bolívar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered heroes of the western hemisphere; in García Márquez’s brilliant reimagining, he is magnificently flawed as well. The novel follows Bolívar as he takes his final journey in 1830 down the Magdalena River toward the sea, revisiting the scenes of his former glory and lamenting his lost dream of an alliance of American nations.
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Narration didn't do justice to the story
- De Phoenix en 06-14-21
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Journey to the End of the Night
- De: Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 19 h y 35 m
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every minute of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty, and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the public in Europe, and later in America.
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Miserable Ride with Cynic Supreme
- De W Perry Hall en 03-15-17
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
- De: James M. Cain
- Narrado por: Stanley Tucci
- Duración: 2 h y 49 m
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An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution; a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
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Tucci's performance of "Postman" is exquisite!
- De Christopher en 06-25-12
De: James M. Cain
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
- De: James Boswell
- Narrado por: David Timson
- Duración: 51 h y 2 m
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Charming, vibrant, witty and edifying, The Life of Samuel Johnson is a work of great obsession and boundless reverence. The literary critic Samuel Johnson was 54 when he first encountered Boswell; the friendship that developed spawned one of the greatest biographies in the history of world literature. The book is full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization, and paints a vivid picture of 18th-century London, peopled by prominent personalities of the time.
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Wonderful!
- De Tad Davis en 02-02-18
De: James Boswell
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Tin Drum
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- Guillermo
- 10-26-09
One of the greatest works of the 20th Century
Strange, irreverent, satirical fable set around world war II era. Often difficult and disturbing yet always comical, enjoyable and entirely essential for the literary minded. Well worth the credit. One of the greatest literary works of the 20th century--along with One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez--another title I hope audible gets soon.
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- Blaise
- 09-30-23
Good but not Great
I read this because it was on the recommended reading list before a river cruise in the area. Some parts of this were interesting, but many unexplained foreign references combined with a near complete lack of awareness of a major World War made me question why this was recommended. I have a better appreciation for what it's like to be a midget rather than about the region.
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- Angel
- 09-17-10
Grows on You
Upon listening to the first third of the Tin Drum, I scurried to my library and gave it a one star rating. I tried again, listening to the second section, and the rating went up to four stars. The book confounded me with the confabulations of the demented musings of a diminished man, who matures inside the body of a person who never grows any larger than a three-year-old. He takes refuge under women’s skirts, as he bears witness to the events of World War II during the invasion of Poland. Each and every of his mental constructs is made up of multiple, arcane, and original analogies. Freud and Young could have spent years arguing over whether coalescing “though bubbles” in his “steam of consciousness” tirades were really the apex of a series of “transferences,” harking back to some unconscious landscape of repressed memories or uncatalogued “archetypes” describing the most eclectic features of the collective unconscious. Such are the ravages or warring camps in the field of psychology, warring cognitions of adult and toddler occupying the same mind, tossed unwittingly about by the warring parties of World War II. Such carnage! It’s brilliant and bogus and you have to love it or hate it. I grew to love what I started out hating.
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- Barry
- 08-11-12
It's a metaphor, right?
One thing is for sure: this book is never boring. Funny, annoying, weird, and a lot of other things, but not boring. It's clear that a lot of things in the book are supposed to be metaphorical. I never did figure out what the tin drum was supposed to be. I did learn a lot about the German mindset through the first half of the 20th century. Or at least, I think I did. There's enough ambiguity that it's hard to tell what Grass's opinions are, what his countrymen actually thought, whether Oskar represents what people really thought or what they thought they thought, or something else. Which is probably true of most people in most places and times. That Grass is able to capture that essence is an accomplishment. That Oskar is perhaps the most aggravating protagonist in literature doesn't diminish that in any way.
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- Robert Fouty
- 01-30-23
Engaging Story
Complex storyline… many characters…interacting and entwining over time..very engaging prose…narrator was easy to listen to…nice hint of German accent in his voice
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- Elisabeth
- 12-15-16
Some of the best irony in literature
Many listeners will perhaps find this book tedious and lacking humour. However a careful listener who has previously found their own human condition not lacking in elements of the absurd will find laugh out loud moments at the most unexpected time. I would compare the subtlety of the irony to that of Don Quixote or The Divine Comedy.
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- Pete Schreiner
- 07-02-23
Loved it but it was “thick” in many ways.
Complicated story line. Unfortunately in 2023 close reading is difficult. It’s such a fast-paced world. However I loved the descriptions, settings, and over texture. It was a quirky kind of fun read.
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- Michael
- 05-28-18
What War Does
Although this is a great book, it will not be for all readers. There is little action and the story is convoluted, self-contradictory, and alternatively commonplace and absurd. I would not recommend this to young readers, and I am not yet sure I will recommend it to my (adult) daughter.
This book is funny at the surface and (literally) intolerably sad below. It deals with the effects of war and the dehumanization of the modern post-war world. This is a great book which uses aspects of magical realism and the absurd to express the pressures of humans dealing with modern war and its aftermath. This book is well worth reading just to hear the story of the Onion Club.
This book did not feel like a translation, it was smooth and resonated very well in english.
The narration was superb, completely clear, expressing emotionality, and handling swift changes of mode and perspective very well.
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- Chris Hawkins Drums
- 09-12-19
Cryptic
This book is not even close to what it says it is. If you read this book as is, it is a great read. But if you dig into the symbolism of what all these characters and stories are actually talking about, your mind will be blown.
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- 02-18-16
Disquieting and provocative story
Oscar comes alive both as a mental provocateur and a fascinating character. One feels transported to the Poland of late 1930s.
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