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This is a bit of an odd book, but also smart, witty, comedic and dramatic. It takes the art of another and creates a story around it. I think that is my favorite part, because it feels like an extremely successful writing prompt assignment. It feel like the rest of us might be able to create a lovely story as well if we only pay attention to all the things that can inspire us. I am not a scholar of the Bible so I cannot say much about the biblical inspiration, but the book ...more
This is a bit of an odd book, but also smart, witty, comedic and dramatic. It takes the art of another and creates a story around it. I think that is my favorite part, because it feels like an extremely successful writing prompt assignment. It feel like the rest of us might be able to create a lovely story as well if we only pay attention to all the things that can inspire us. I am not a scholar of the Bible so I cannot say much about the biblical inspiration, but the book ...more
This slight, unusual novel is based on the famous Dutch painting 'De parabel der blinden' (1568) by Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, which is known to illustrate the Biblical parable of 'the blind leading the blind'. Here, German author Hofmann imagines the recruitment of the six blind men to pose as life models for Bruegel to paint. They are asked to find their way to his house in Flanders, and walk in frustrating (for them and reader alike) circles, wrong turns, and dead ends befo
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