Professor Lichtenberg is short, humpbacked, and losing his hair. He writes about mathematics, electricity, philosophy, but his dreams are more lascivious. He wants someone to warm his bed and fill his heart.
Mark Thwaite, editor of RSB, provides a welcome review of my favourite Gert Hofmann novel, still to be published both in paperback and in Britain. He brings out what makes it unique. See also Spike’s own Edmund Hardy’s superb review of an earlier work The Parable of the Blind.
I tend to think if Hofmann were more widely read here, there would be fewer of the usual novels that clog the literary arteries.
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