The Parable of the Blind - Hardcover

Hofmann, Gert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880640510 ISBN 13: 9780880640510

Publisher: Fromm Intl, 1986

Synopsis

With one voice, the six blind men from Breughel's famous sixteenth-century painting "The Parable of the Blind" narrate their adventures on the day they are to be painted

About this title

About the Author:

Gert Hofmann (1931-1993) was a prolific German writer of both novels and radio-plays. In the 1980s, he won prizes such as the Prix Italia and the Doblin prize. He is most well known for examining mortality and the resonances of Nazism in postwar Germany. His 1985 novel, Der Blindensturz was translated into English by Christopher Middleton in 1989, and retitled The Parable of the Blind.Christopher Middleton (1926-2015) was a British poet, professor, and translator. He specialized in Germanic Languages & Literature, and was a professor at the University of Texas from 1966 to 1998. He has translated works from many German authirs, including Nietzsche, Hölderlin, and Hofmann, and has been awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, as well as the Schlegel-Tieck prize for translation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fromm Intl
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0880640510
• ISBN 13: 9780880640510
• Binding: Hardcover