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Blumenberg

Blumenberg

Sibylle Lewitscharoff (born 1954)

Translated by Wieland Hoban

English editions

In English

• Blumenberg

  Seagull Books · United Kingdom · February 2022 · Paperback · 224 pages

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• Blumenberg

  Seagull Books · United Kingdom · June 2017 · Hardcover · 224 pages

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Large, yellow, calm: one night, as if it were the most natural thing, a lion lies in the study of the philosopher Hans Blumenberg, limbs stretched out on the carpet, eyes on the master of the house. With some effort, Blumenberg keeps his composure, even when the lion trots into his lecture the next day. The benches are full, but none of the students seems to see it. The animal also casts a spell over some of them, among them the thread-thin Gerhard, an ardent disciple, and the delicate Isa, who falls headlong for the wrong man. A fantasy about a hermit-like thinker, and an ironic portrait of the intellectual mood of the early eighties.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

216 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2011 by Suhrkamp Verlag

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9783518422441 (original)

9780857423696 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)

9780857429971 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)

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