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Zusatztext "Fascinating and marvelous material." - Richard Wagner "I have been reading off and on a few things by the ‘mad’ Hoffmann! mad! fantastic stuff! here and there a brilliant thought." - Sigmund Freud "Long before his death he was the kind of author anyone who reads at all reads." - R.J. Hollingdale "Take a vigorous imagination and a perfectly clear spirit! a bitter melancholia and an inexhaustible appetite for buffoonery and extravagance: a man who can draw with a firm literary hand the most fantastic figures! who can conjure up the strangest scenes through the clearness of his narrative and the truth of his detail! who can make one dream! laugh and shiver at the same time! who writes like Callot! with the inventiveness of the Arabian Nights and the storytelling ability of Walter Scott! and there you have Hoffmann." - André-Marie Ampère! Le Globe 1823 Informationen zum Autor E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a German author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. He is the subject and hero of Offenbach's famous but unfinished opera The Tales of Hoffmann and is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement. Klappentext ETA Hoffman's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King may be familiar to many! having served as the inspiration for Tchaikovsky's famous ballet. However! the ballet was based on a French retelling of the story and Hoffmann's German original is rarely translated in its entirety. Fascinating and marvelous material -- Richard Wagner I have been reading off and on a few things by the 'mad' Hoffmann, mad, fantastic stuff, here and there a brilliant thought -- Sigmund Freud Long before his death he was the kind of author anyone who reads at all reads -- R.J. Hollingdale Take a vigorous imagination and a perfectly clear spirit, a bitter melancholia and an inexhaustible appetite for buffoonery and extravagance: a man who can draw with a firm literary hand the most fantastic figures, who can conjure up the strangest scenes through the clearness of his narrative and the truth of his detail, who can make one dream, laugh and shiver at the same time, who writes like Callot, with the inventiveness of the Arabian Nights and the storytelling ability of Walter Scott, and there you have Hoffmann -- Andre-Marie Ampere Le Globe 1823 Two of Hoffmann's most famous fantastical achievements, translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell Zusammenfassung ETA Hoffman's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King may be familiar to many! having served as the inspiration for Tchaikovsky's famous ballet. However! the ballet was based on a French retelling of the story and Hoffmann's German original is rarely translated in its entirety. ...
