Günter Grass (1927-2015) was a German poet, novelist, playwright, sculptor, and printmaker. His first novel, Die Blechtrommel (1959) was a literary spokesman for the German generation that survived the war after growing up in the Nazi era. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999. Ralph Manheim(1907-1992) was an American translator of German and French literature. He also occasionally translated works from Dutch, Polish, and Hungarian.
Fiction
Spring 1981
“The Meeting at Telgte”: An Excerpt from the Novel
Translated from German. Grass’s novel is set in May, 1647, just before the signing of the treaties ending the Thirty Years’ War. To an imaginary meeting at Telgte, a […]
The Meeting at Telgte: An Excerpt from the Novel*
Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Spring 1981, Vol. 3, No. 2 The five geese were already lined up on one spit and […]