The meeting at Telgte
By: Günter Grass ; translated by Ralph Manheim ; afterword by Leonard Forster.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Description: "In 1647, as the Thirty Years' War was drawing to its close, a group of poets from all parts of Germany gather at the pilgrimage town of Telgte, for the purpose of strengthening the last remaining bond within a divided nation: its language and literature. They meet and part in disarray, yet manage to discuss their manuscripts with all the liveliness of friendship and force of rivalry, against a background of brutality and anguish ... The fictitious meeting of 1647 is the replay of a real meeting of German poets and writers, known as Group 47, at the end of another devastating war three hundred years later"--Cover.
Notes: Translation of Das Treffen in Telgte.
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."