Drumming your sanity away

Friendship Edition.

The Tin Drum (El Tambor De Hojalata) by Günter Grass. 

This book was a gift from a friend from college whom I lost track since then, I loved him very much and is the one thing I have from him. That is an experience you don´t get with ebooks, I think they are great, not my taste though. 

This is a very dear book then for a couple of reasons: we were young and a bit of outsiders ourselves, how we could not love something like this? 

It has Oskar, the ultimate unreliable narrator, amoral and terrible, a genius and a criminal. I always thought funny that after he says he is in a mental asylum, there are some facts that are stated: that he was born with a developed adult mind and that he decided not to grow at age three and thus, didn't grow. And must blurbs state that, I am not saying it is not true,  but it is just marvelous how many paths can take you from the truth or a fact to the perception of that fact, and so this is a book that has many readings, a fantastic journey, a political allegory, a social one, a fabrication of a delusional mind or everything at the same time. What makes us believe something? what make us find charming a most unpleasant person? when do we give in an absurd setting like that? I am talking both about the book and the story in the book. 

There is so much food for thought in this book.