This early work by E. Hoffmann was originally published in and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. This selection of Hoffmann's finest short stories vividly demonstrates his intense imagination and preoccupation with the supernatural, placing him at the forefront of both surrealism and the modern horror genre.
His family were all jurists, and during his youth he was initially encouraged to pursue a career in law. However, in his late teens Hoffman became increasingly interested in literature and philosophy, and spent much of his time reading German classicists and attending lectures by, amongst others, Immanuel Kant. Hoffmann's stories highly influenced 19th-century literature, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement. Hoffmann is one of the best-known representatives of German Romanticism, and a pioneer of the fantasy genre, with a taste for the macabre combined with realism that influenced such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Charles Dickens, Charles Baudelaire, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka and Alfred Hitchcock.
Hoffmann's work makes a considerable contribution to our understanding of the emergence of scientific knowledge in the early years of the nineteenth century and to the conflict between science and magic, centred mainly on the 'truths' available to the advocates of either practice.
The Novels: 1. Little Zaches 3. Master Flea The Tales: 4. The Serapion Brethren 5. Weird Tales 6. Miscellaneous Tales. Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The first English translation of Krzhizhanovsky's modernist essays on theater and of his play That Third Guy, a farce written at the onset of the Stalinist Terror.
Hoffmann was originally published in Born in Konigsberg, East Prussia in , Hoffmann's family were all jurists, and during his youth he was initially encouraged to pursue a career in law.
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Biographische einleitung. Jacques Callot. Ritter Gluck. Kreisleriana, nr. Don Juan. Nachricht von den neuesten schicksalen des hundes Berganza. Der magnetiseur. Der goldne topf. Die abenteur der Sylvester-nacht. Die elixiere des teufels. Ignaz Denner. Die Jesuiterkirche in G. Das sanctus. Das majorat. Das steinerne herz. Seltsame leiden eines theater-direktors. Klein Zaches genannt Zinnober.
Rath Krespel. Die fermate. Der dichter und der komponist. Ein fragment aus dem leben dreier freunde. Der Artushof. Die bergwerke zu Falun. Eine spukgeschichte. Die automate. Doge und dogaresse. Das fremde kind. Der teufel in Berlin.
Die brautwahl.
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