The Parable of the Blind
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 h…
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Weitere Autoren: Middleton, Christopher (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-56792-563-0
- EAN: 9781567925630
- Produktnummer: 22338266
- Verlag: Verba Mundi
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 152 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.0 cm 181 g
- Gewicht: 181
Über den Autor
Gert Hofmann was a prolific German writer, best known for examining mortality and the resonances of Nazism in postwar Germany.
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