Der Blindensturz (1985), translated as The Parable of the Blind, is a short novel in ten chapters by German writer Gert Hofmann.

[4] Der Blindensturz has been translated into English by Christopher Middleton for Fromm International in 1989.

After becoming lost, nearly drowned, and attacked by a dog, the men finally arrive at the painter's house where they are fed and warmed (and nearly burned by the fire).

The blind men are then led to a bridge and are told to repeatedly walk across it in a line as they hold on to each other and fall into the stream, while the painter paints them from inside his open window.

[4][5][6] In Spike Magazine, Edmund Hardy writes: "Hofmann’s prose is so concentrated and unrelenting that claustrophobia turns to terrible awareness .