Lichtenberg and the little flower girl
By: Gert Hofmann ; translated and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann.
Contributors: Hofmann, Michael, 1957 Aug. 25-
Publisher: New Directions Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Work titles: Kleine Stechardin.
Description: "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," Maria Stechard, a flower seller he meets one day near his laboratory in Gottingen."--BOOK JACKET.