The Living Statue: A Legend

By: Grass, Günter

At the end of the 1980s, a writer on a book tour, who very much resembles Grass, passes through East Germany 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 as they were when alive 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:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811238105
• ISBN13: 9780811238106
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.7" x 7.3"