RT Book, Whole DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 7177690 LA English T1 The meeting at Telgte A1 Grass, Günter,, PB Harcourt Brace Jovanovich PP New York YR 1981 SN 0151585881 9780151585885 AB "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.