V-2nd. Does TRP pay homage to a major anti-Nazi book from a future Nobelist?

[Mark Kohut]

P. 32. "Behind it all, clobbering polyrhythmic to the racketing of the shuttle, Jose on his tin drum, forearms and hands vibrating out beyond the persistence of vision, and a tireless smile across his teeth..."
 
The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass. The novel is the first book of Grass's Danziger Trilogie (Danzig Trilogy).
A translation into English by Ralph Manheim was published in 1961.                   Not that TRP might not have read it in German.
 
it is this phrase in the praise.....one for a visual, image-creating artist....and that "polyrhythmic clobbering"--which might describe The Tin Drum--- and Grass has always been a guy with a life-embracing tireless smile despite.............it all. 
 
persistence of vision: (physiology) The ability of the eye to retain the impression of an image for a short time after the image has disappeared. 
I believe TRP uses this phrase elsewhere, too---GR---I think someone glossed it on the wiki........................you can look it up