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Author / Creator:	Hofmann, Gert, author.
Uniform title:	Veilchenfeld. English
Imprint:	New York, NY : The New York Review of Books, [2023]
Description:	xiii, 143 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New York Review Books classics New York Review Books classics.
Subject:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction. Jews -- Germany -- Fiction. College teachers -- Germany -- Fiction. Social isolation -- Germany -- Fiction. Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction. Saxony (Germany) -- Fiction. Novels Novels.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13265558

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Other authors / contributors:	Mace-Tessler, Eric, translator. Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25- writer of introduction.
ISBN:	9781681377582 1681377586 9781681377599
Summary:	""O, it has happened little by little, as many things simply happen little by little, Mother said, and told us everything about Herr Veilchenfeld, as far as it was known to her." Germany, late 1930s. Walking into town on a hot summer evening, the elderly professor of philosophy Herr Veilchenfeld encounters a group of local drunks. He is humiliated and assaulted; his hair is shorn. The police "don't interfere in such minor matters." What happens to Veilchenfeld is recounted by the young son of the doctor who attends the professor. The boy observes, listens in to his parents' conversations, and asks for ice cream. He cannot know the true import of the events he witnesses. Our Philosopher, first published in Germany in 1986 and now translated into English for the first time, is a salutary masterpiece about the destructive effects of persecution not only for the victims, but for the community as a whole."--
Other form:	Online version: Hofmann, Gert. Our philosopher New York : New York Review Books, [2023] 9781681377599

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