The Living Statue :A Legend

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The Living Statue

The Living Statue :A Legend

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At the end of the 1980s, a writer who very much resembles Günter Grass passes through East Germany on a book tour and visits the Cathedral of Naumburg with its famous twelve donor statues. He invites the sculptor's models to dinner—and they come, not as ghosts, but just as alive as they were in the thirteenth century. Toward the end of dinner, after drinking an icy Coca-Cola, the model for the famed beauty Uta von Naumburg declares she has to go to work: she's a living statue.  As he continues touring around Europe, the writer looks for Uta and her donation basket outside every cathedral he passes. At last, in Frankfurt, he sees her in front of a Deutsche Bank and the two have a meeting with staggering consequences. As Grass said, “on paper everything is possible”, and in this tale he gleefully erases the line between life and death, present and past.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780811238106
ISBN10 0811238105
Number Of Pages 48
Item Weight 59 g
Product Dimensions 117 x 185 x 5 mm
Publisher / Reseller New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format paperback
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"I envied him his artistic gift almost more than I admired him for his literary genius. Among the immortals." -- Salman Rushdie - The New Yorker
"Exquisite writing." -- Charles Simic - The New York Review of Books
"The strongest, most inventive writer to have emerged in Germany since 1945. Much of what is active in the Germany of Krupp and the Munich beer halls lies in this man's ribald keeping." -- Commentary

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Author's Bio

Günter Grass (1927–2015), Germany’s most celebrated contemporary writer, attained worldwide renown with the publication of his novel The Tin Drum in 1959. A man of remarkable versatility, Grass was a poet, playwright, social critic, graphic artist, and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. The award-winning translator Michael Hofmann has also translated works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Gert Hofmann, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, and Joseph Roth for New Directions. His translation of Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2024.

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