The Meeting at Telgte (1979)

by Günter Grass

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A group of leading intellectuals from all parts of Germany gather in 1647 for the purpose of strengthening the last remaining bond within a divided nation-its language and literature-as the Thirty Years' War comes to an end. Afterword by Leonard Forster. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book… (more)

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Yikes, I tell a lie. I'm not currently reading it, I'm too scared to. I need somebody out there to give me some encouragement. I was thinking of Matt, but I see it's only on your to be done shelf.

I've been reading German literature (etc) from straight after WWII and this seems like I should give it a go, but when I opened it up, I discovered really I had to start at the end with a rather terrifyingly complicated account of the period in which it is set and the people whom the reader will meet.

To be honest, I put it back on my physical to-read-shelf. How to overcome my cowardice?

bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |

This was one of the forgotten fare of one of those Grass clusters in the late 1990s. I reread this a few years ago after reading C.V. Wedgwood's history of the Thirty Year War. It is certainly thinner Grass, equating his own Gruppe 47 with the efforts to restore civilization after that bloodbath in the anything but Holy Roman Empire. (

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jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 |

If someone is short on time or for other reasons not willing to read Grass’s long novels, he should start with this allegory focussing the encounters of German writers in the fifties, relocated to the period of the Thirty Years War. Consumable in a single day.

hbergander | Dec 18, 2011 |

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Grass, Günter	Author	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Mayer-Iswandy, Claudia	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Keltainen kirjasto (164)

Nuovi coralli [Einaudi] (327)

Reclams Universal-Bibliothek, Leipzig (1071)

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Das Treffen in Telgte. Eine Erzählung by Günter Grass

Cat and Mouse and Other Writings (German Library) by Günter Grass

Das Treffen in Telgte: Eine Erzählung und dreiundvierzig Gedichte aus dem Barock by Günter Grass

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Reclam Erläuterungen und Dokumente : Günter Grass : Das Treffen in Telgte by Stephan Füssel

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SWR-Bestenliste (1979)

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Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher

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The Meeting at Telgte

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Das Treffen in Telgte

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1979

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Paul Gerhardt

Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Daniel Czepko von Reigersfeld

Johannes Scheffler

Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau

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Telgte

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Thirty Years' War

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A Hans Werner Richter

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Ieri sarà quel che domani è stato. Le nostre storie d'oggi non hanno bisogno di essere accadute adesso. Questa qui è cominciata più di trecent'anni or sono. Altre storie lo stesso. Talmente remota è l'origine di ogni storia che agisca in Germania. Quanto ebbe inizio a Telgte, io lo trascrivo, perché un amico, uno che nel quarantesettesimo anno del nostro secolo ha radunato i propri pari intorno a sé, vuol festeggiare il settantesimo compleanno; solo che è più vecchio, molto più vecchio - e noi, i suoi amici del presente, siamo tutti, con lui, grigio cenere di quel tempo andato.

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A group of leading intellectuals from all parts of Germany gather in 1647 for the purpose of strengthening the last remaining bond within a divided nation-its language and literature-as the Thirty Years' War comes to an end. Afterword by Leonard Forster. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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