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The Film Explainer
As the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is absorbed into the Man Booker International Prize, it seems an opportune time to take a look at a past IFFP winner, Gert Hofmann’s The Film Explainer,...
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The Parable of the Blind
A couple of years ago I read Gert Hofmann’s The Film Explainer, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1995, during German Literature Month, an experience which left me intrigued to...
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Veilchenfeld
Originally published in 1986, Veilchenfeld appeared towards the end of Gert Hofmann’s career as a novelist, though it lies in the middle of what has been translated into English, the earliest of which...
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Luck
Though many of Gert Hofmann’s novels explore the Nazism which for any German writer born in 1931 must have felt both important and urgent – whether its rise (The Film Explainer), its dominance...
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Lichtenberg & the Little Flower Girl
In the Afterward to his translation of his father’s novel, Michael Hofmann makes the claim that Hofmann senior had two main subjects: art and childhood, and that his later novels (of which Lichtenberg...
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Balzac’s Horse
Gert Hofmann’s Balzac’s Horse and Other Stories was originally published in 1981 as Gespräch über Balzacs Pferd: Vier Novellen (A Conversation About Balzac’s Horse: Four Novellas) appearing in English...
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