
Our Philosopher
Gert Hofmann(Author)
NYRB Classics (Publisher)
Published on 26. September 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-68137-758-2 (ISBN)
Description
"'O, it has happened little by little, as many things simply happen little by little, Mother said, and told us everything about Herr Veilchenfeld, as far as it was known to her.' Germany, late 1930s. Walking into town on a hot summer evening, the elderly professor of philosophy Herr Veilchenfeld encounters a group of local drunks. He is humiliated and assaulted; his hair is shorn. The police "don't interfere in such minor matters." What happens to Veilchenfeld is recounted by the young son of the doctor who attends the professor. The boy observes, listens in to his parents' conversations, and asks for ice cream. He cannot know the true import of the events he witnesses. Our Philosopher, first published in Germany in 1986 and now translated into English for the first time, is a salutary masterpiece about the destructive effects of persecution not only for the victims, but for the community as a whole"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
New York Review Books
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
196 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68137-758-2 (9781681377582)
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Gert Hofmann, translated from the German by Eric Mace-Tessler, introduction by M ichael Hofmann