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Indlæser... Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl (1994)af Gert Hofmann
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In "Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl," novelist Gert Hofmann weaves a wondrous fictionalized tale of Lichtenberg's real-life romance with "the model of beauty and sweetness," Maria Stechard, a flower seller he meets one day near his laboratory in Gottingen. "The greater part of what I commit to paper is untrue, and the best of it is nonsense!" says Lichtenberg, our hunchbacked hero. His daily life of "wrestling with death," of electricity machines and exploding gases, is plunged into new passion the day he encounters the Stechardess: "Something is found that was lost for a long time." Soon he teaches her to read and write, she helps him keep house... and then? Colored with Lichtenberg's boisterous, enlightening meditations on life, death and everything in-between, this stunning fable-of-awakening was described by the "Washington Post" as "a quiet and convincing description of human happiness... a fine and original book." No library descriptions found. |
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The edition I read is not that pictured but this one from CB Editions in the UK. A reviewer describes the inappropriate nature of the image on the cover pictured, so one would do well to get the plain-brown-wrapper edition from the admirable CB Editions.
Michael Hofmann sees this work as part of a loose trilogy of books about story-telling that came at the end of the writer's life, the other two being The Film Explainer, which I read some years ago and haven't reviewed here yet, and Luck which I've just received. Possible The Film Explainer will require re-reading with Michael Hofmann's thought in mind. ( )