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The Parable of the Blind

The Parable of the Blind

Hofmann, Gert
Middleton, Christopher

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HumorHistorical Fiction

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ISBN10: 1567925634
ISBN13: 9781567925630
Publisher: Verba Mundi
Published: Apr 28 2016
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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.

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