The Parable of the Blind

by Gert Hofmann

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567925634
• ISBN13: 9781567925630
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Verba Mundi
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"