The Meeting at Telgte (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Gunter Grass
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: May, 1647
- Setting: The town of Telgte in Westphalia, Germany
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Politics, Seventeenth century, Fire, Germany or German people, Thirty Years’ War
- Locales: Germany, Westphalia, Germany
Characters Discussed
Simon Dach (dahkh), a professor of poetry in Königsberg (Germany) and an important poet in his own right. He organizes the meeting of poets in 1647, originally to be held in Osnabrück but forced to be held in the small village of Telgte because Osnabrück is full of soldiers. Dach, a moderate but decisive man, has decided to gather German poets from all over Europe to hold a disputation and conference. In reality, this meeting never took place. The novel commemorates the founding of the postwar German literary group, Group 47. Dach represents the founder...
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