Yoel Hoffmann’s idiosyncratic style brings together various unrelated genres – stream of consciousness, nonsense literature, and Zen koans – and departs from almost every literary and even typographical convention. This article offers a new context for considering Hoffmann’s work, focusing on the “fragmented body image” that is shown to be widespread in his creative universe, among the characters active in his fiction, and in his narrative voice. The suggested framing locates Hoffmann within Eastern and Western traditions of thought and writing that have influenced his work and within a post-Freudian approach to the psyche and the psychesoma link. His unique text also requires a different type of reader as well, whose characteristics are addressed.