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"God's Fool" (1892) is a novel by Maarten Maartens, set in a fictional Dutch town. The novel's "hero", Elias Lossell, becomes deaf and blind from an accident when he is nine years of age. People around him can talk to him by writing letters with a finger on the palm of his hand. Although communication can be done, mentally he always remains a boy of nine.
Thanks to a somewhat thoughtless testament, Elias becomes the rightful owner of a tea-merchant firm. His half-brothers, the twins Hendrik and Hubert, manage the firm on his behalf. Elias lives in a residence of his own at the outskirts of the town, taken care of by his old nurse, and occupies himself by growing flowers and helping the needy. A quarrel between your twins in Elias's house escalates into a murder, and the novel comes with an open ending following a twist.
The title is based on 1 Corinthians 3:19: "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God." Elias Lossell, the main person, may be a fool, but he has God's wisdom.
