Funny, gorgeous and utterly unique, Curriculum Vitae is Yoel Hoffmann s triumphant look backward and inward: How stupid we are to let the world toss us from one place to another, while we need to speak to dentists and poets like warehouse clerks who keep an account of old equipment (bags here and belts there) and pile it up on the floor. What do we remember? The lake at Biwa and the houses across it. The cherry blossoms and Auschwitz, Treblinka, Maidenak.... Hoffmann, as theChicago Tribune put it, is not just a good writer but a great one, with the ability to find, in the...