Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl

Gert Hofmann

Translated by Michael Hofmann earliest edition we have, 2004 New Directions Books, 2004 hardcover 245 pages

"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 fictionalized tale of Lichtenberg's real life romance with "the model of beauty and sweetness," Ma...

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Michael Hofmann 2 printings we hold · 2004–2007 · New Directions Books

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Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl paperback · 2007 · New Directions · 245 pages · 9780811216951
Lichtenberg and the little flower girl hardcover · 2004 · New Directions Books · 245 pages · 9780811215688

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