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Dec 07, 2009 if you were to ask a french reader whos your literatures best kept secret. Fragments of lichtenberg french literature series fre. Feb 27, 2017 despite spending the last few months tackling massive tomes such as arno schmidts bottoms dream, pierre senges fragments of lichtenberg and i stared at the night of the city by bakhtiyar ali, all of this has to be put to one side as the man booker international prize announces their longlist. The eighteenthcentury german physicist georg christoph lichtenberg left behind at the time of his death thousands of fragmentary notes commenting on a dazzling and at the same time puzzling array of subjects. They frequently combine erudition and invention fragments of. The essays i am posting on humanities commons are also on librarything and goodreads.
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