The Parable of the Blind

by Gert Hofmann

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Six blind beggars in 16th century Flanders--a ragged, profane, and irascible crew--find themselves waking to yet another grim day in the dark. Today, however, something is different. Today these men have an appointment with a painter: they have been hired as models, to pose for Pieter Bruegel's grotesque masterpiece-in-the-making, The Parable of the Blind.

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Gert Hofmann, Dr. phil. habil. (2011, University of Rostock) is Head of the Department of German at the National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC). He has published extensively on literary and cultural theory, including Schweigende Tropen. Studien zu einer sthetik der Ohnmacht (Francke, 2003). Snjezana Zoric, Dr. phil. (2000, University of show more Zagreb), is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zadar. She has published widely on Asian religions and anthropological theory, including Yongsan-Jae. Buddhist Ritual as a Mirror Image of the Korean Culture (Institute of Ethnology and Folkloristics, Zagreb, 2004). show less

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Duquesnoy, Theodor (Translator)

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Canonical title*
De parabel van de blinden
Original title
Der Blindensturz
Original publication date
1985
People/Characters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Pieter Bruegel
Important places
Flanders, Belgium
Original language*
Duits
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
833.914Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesGerman fiction1900-1900-19901945-1990
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PT2668 .O376 .B5513Language and LiteratureGerman, Dutch and Scandinavian literaturesGerman literatureIndividual authors or works1961-2000
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