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Presence of the Body provides an interdisciplinary forum (including literary, performative, philosophical and anthropological approaches) for the dialogue between theory and practice about the impact of the body on human awareness in the fields of art, writing, meditative practice, and performance.

A heartwrenching tale of a family's dissolution told from a child's crystalline perspective. Luck is the beautiful, bittersweet, and very funny novel about a nuclear family living in a small German townwonderfully translated by Gert Hofmann's son, acclaimed translator and poet Michael Hofmann. It begins and ends on the same day, the "last day" of the narrator's childhood as he prepares to leave home with Father, because Mother is waiting for h...

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 wondrous fictionalized tale of Lichtenberg's real-life romance with "the model of beauty and sweetness, " Maria Stechard, a f...

New essays on poetical and theoretical responses to the Holocaust's rupture of German and European civilization.

Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Award

Was ist ein Snob? Ein Mensch, der sich mit Attributen versieht, die ihn von der Masse unterscheiden. Ein Mensch, der mit möglichst wenigen anderen Menschen verwechselt werden will. Sind wir also alle Snobs? Gert Hofmann erzählt in seinen Texten von einer Alltagswelt, in der es darum geht, das höchste Maß der Aufmerksamkeit auf sich zu lenken. Er erzählt Geschichten mit minimalistischem Witz und verbeugt sich vor Snobs wie Flaubert und Henry Ja...