Hubert Fichte

"Hubert Fichte (1935-1986) was a German novelist. In the mid sixties Fichte published his first novels. (...) His main influences were Marcel Proust, Hans Henny Jahnn and Jean Genet. In the seventies Fichte worked more and more on ethnological research. From 1971 to 1975 he travelled to Bahia (Brazil), Haiti and Trinidad several times. (...) In the late sixties Fichte began writing his main work Die Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit (the history of the sensibility, or: the story of the pettishness) a monumental cycle of novels. His last set of plans showed his intention to write nineteen books, most of them novels, but also some volumes of essays, called “Glossen”."

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