The Meeting at Telgte
1979 novel by Günter Grass / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Meeting at Telgte (German: Das Treffen in Telgte) is a 1979 novel by the West German writer Günter Grass. The narrative revolves around a fictional meeting for intellectuals hosted by Simon Dach during the Thirty Years' War. The story combines a depiction of leading seventeenth-century literary figures with an analogy for the post-World War II society in Germany, and of Group 47 in West Germany, of which Grass was a member.
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Author | Günter Grass |
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Original title | Das Treffen in Telgte |
Translator | Ralph Manheim |
Language | German |
Publisher | Luchterhand |
Publication date | 1979 |
Publication place | West Germany |
Published in English | 1981 |
Pages | 182 |
ISBN | 347286480X |
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