Heidegger's Glasses
Subtitle: a Novel
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781582438641
Subjects: Correspondence; Martin Heidegger; Literature; 1889-1976; Fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Germany; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Scribes
Description: Heidegger's Glasses opens during the end of World War II in a failing Germany coming apart at its seams. The Third Reich's strong reliance on the occult and its obsession with the astral plane has led to the formation of an underground compound of scribes -translators responsible for answering letters written to those eventually killed in the concentration camps. Into this covert compound comes a letter written by eminent philosopher Martin Heidegger to his optometrist, a man now lost in the dying thralls of Auschwitz. How will the scribes answer this letter? The presence of Heidegger's words-
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; CURATOR'S NOTES; PROLOGUE; The Orders; The Bargain; The Black Forest; The Angel of Auschwitz; Fugitives; The Tunnel; The Trunk; Thanks.