Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl
by Gert Hofmann
Category: Fiction

"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 a philosopher and satirist on the sly. 'Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl' is novelist Gert Hofmann's wondrous fictionalized tale of Lichtenberg's real-life romance with Maria Stechard, a flower seller he meets one day near his laboratory in Göttingen. The Washington Post called Hofmann's novel 'a quiet and convincing description of human happiness... a fine and original book'."--rear cover.