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Kogda Umberto Ėko sprosili, s kakoĭ zhenshchinoĭ iz mirovoĭ istorii iskusstva on khotel by provesti vecher, on nazval Utu Naumburgskui͡u. Rasskazchik ėtoĭ istorii, nobelevskiĭ laureat Gi͡unter Grass, razdeli͡aet ėto mnenie. Vo vremi͡a pisatelʹskogo tura po GDR v kont͡se 1980 kh godov on vidit eë vmeste s odinnadt͡satʹi͡u drugimi figurami donatorovv Naumburgskom sobore. A poskolʹku na bumage vozmozhno vsë, on reshaet priglasitʹ vsekh tekh, po chʹemu podobii͡u khudozhnik sozdal v XIII veke realistichnye skulʹptury, otobedatʹ v ego sadu. Neozhidanno oblik Uty vstrechaetsi͡a emu realʹno v dne segodni͡ashnem - na ploshchadi͡akh Këlʹna, Milana i Frankfurta. Grass sleduet za neĭ povsi͡udu, ishchet vstrechi. Kakoĭ ona i͡avitsi͡a emu segodni͡a? O chëm oni budut govoritʹ?Istorii͡a, iznachalʹno zadumannai͡a kak glava dli͡a knigi "Lukovit͡sa pami͡ati", byla obnaruzhena v arkhive Grassa ego sotrudnit͡seĭ Khilʹke Ozoling sovsem nedavno. Teperʹ, uzhe posle smerti avtora, ėta novella, proilli͡ustrirovannai͡a avtorskoĭ grafikoĭ, uvidela svet.

When Umberto Eco was asked which woman from the world of art history he would like to spend the evening with, he named Uta Naumburgskaya. The narrator of this story, Nobel laureate Gunther Grass, shares this opinion. During a writer's tour of the GDR in the late 1980s, he sees her along with eleven other donor figures in the Naumburg Cathedral. And since everything is possible on paper, he decides to invite all those in whose likeness the artist created realistic sculptures in the 13th century to dine in his garden. Unexpectedly, the image of Uta meets him really in the present day — in the squares of Cologne, Milan and Frankfurt. Grass follows her everywhere, looking for a meeting. What will she look like to him today? What will they talk about?The story, originally conceived as a chapter for the book "The Onion of Memory," was discovered in the Grass archive by his collaborator Hilke Ozoling recently. Now, after the author's death, this novel, illustrated by the author's graphics, has been published.