Late Fame

A hilarious takedown of celebrity and false genius, never before available in the US.

An NYRB Classics Original


Eduard Saxberger is a quiet man who is getting on in years and has spent the better part of them working at a desk in an office. Once upon a time, however, he published a book of poetry, Wanderings, and one day when he returns from his usual walk he finds a young man waiting for him. “Are you,” he wants to know, “Saxberger the poet?”

Is Saxberger Saxberger the poet? Was he ever a poe...