A new translation of the only novel by lauded Romanian literary critic Matei CalinescuAn NYRB Classics Original Ugly, unkempt, a haunter of low dives who begs for a living and lives on the street, Zacharias Lichter exists for all that in a state of unlikely rapture. After being engulfed by a divine flame as a teenager, Zacharias has devoted his days to doing nothing at all-apart, that is, from composing the odd poem he immediately throws away ...
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