Fragments of Lichtenberg Romance the burdens of illness and

the burdens of illness and grief

it lays bare the joists and studs that hold up the house of fiction

and this launches the operative conceit in this collection: each poem explores the perspective of the canvas of life and death

[T]his novel's whirling blocks of prose suggest faces glimpsed from behind a podium

Fragments of Lichtenberg Romance the burdens of illness andThe eighteenth century German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg left behind at the time of his death thousands of fragmentary notes commenting on a dazzling and at the same time puzzling array of subjects. Pierre Senges's Fragments of Lichtenberg imaginatively and hilariously reconstructs the efforts of scholars across three centuries to piece together Lichtenberg's disparate notes into a coherent philosophical or artistic statement. The