The Parable of the Blind - Couverture souple

Hofmann, Gert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1567925634 ISBN 13 : 9781567925630

Editeur : David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2016

Synopsis

A high-water mark of postwar German literature, a profoundly skeptical meditation on the fragility of human communities and the pitfalls and contradictions of making art.

A knocking on the barn door drags us out of our sleep. No, the knocking isn't inside us, it's outside, where the other people are. With that, six blind beggars--ragged, profane, irascible--find themselves waking to yet another grim day in the dark. Today, however, something is different. Today these men have an appointment with a painter: they have been hired as models, to pose for Pieter Bruegel's grotesque masterpiece-in-the-making.

With tremendous verbal ingenuity and black humor, Gert Hofmann's novel follows this tattered sextet's shambling progress across a landscape in 16th century Flanders, peopled by half-heard voices and unseen dangers, towards their ultimate encounter with the great, capricious artist, and (perhaps) their own immortality.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Gert Hofmann was a prolific German writer, best known for examining mortality and the resonances of Nazism in postwar Germany.

Christopher Middleton was a British poet, professor, and translator who specialized in Germanic languages and literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1567925634
• ISBN 13: 9781567925630
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152
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• Personne responsable: non disponible