Pierre Senges

Fragments of Lichtenberg (French Literature Series) Pierre Senges

In just over half a century, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742--1799) had the time to be all of the following: a hunchback; a mathematician; an electrical theorist; a skirt-chaser; an asthmatic; a hypochondriac; and the author of 8,000 aphorisms. Certain scholars claim, however, that these writings are really the scattered pieces of a Great Novel, and this brilliant and polymorphous fiction by Pierre Senges tracks their attempts to piece that book together. The reader will also discover how a spinal column gets twisted, what happened to Snow White's eighth dwarf, how the CIA functions, how to burn down libraries, and how to get a lunar crater named after you.