Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl (Paperback)

From dross to gold, an enchanting tale of love is spun.
Goethe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, Einstein--all praised the writings of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), a mathematician, physicist and astronomer by profession, and an aphorist and satirist on the sly. 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."

General

Imprint:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2007
First published:	July 2007
Authors:	Gert Hofmann
Translators:	Michael Hofmann
Dimensions:	178 x 127 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8112-1695-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN:	0-8112-1695-0
Barcode:	9780811216951

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