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The comedy of literalism.
Grass' sarcasm is a welcome respite from the heavy-handed literalism of so much contemporary Holocaust narrative, from the 1979 television series Holocaust (another mass catalyst for German self-awareness) to Schindler's List to the odious Jakob the Liar . And yet, for all of Grass' rage at Germany's crimes, the fact that The Tin Drum rarely names those crimes or explores their existence, and seems so focused on the souls of the Germans, with little empathy to spare for their victims, makes the book feel more like a step on the way to something than like the thing itself--whether that thing be a more moral or simply a greater work of literature.
There are some book reviews, which are acceptable but not much more; some movie reviews, which are pretty feeble, with that literalism that bedevils many literary writers when they come to dabble in the form (viz.
1 Fundamentalism/Literalism
Wiser evolutionists know that the better approach is to pose a choice not between science and religion but between literalism and interpretation.