Night sketches. Nachtstück. Hoffman E.T.A.

publication in German.

In his famous “Night Studies” cycle, the world -famous German writer Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann included eight mystical short stories that immerse the reader in the ominous and dangerous world of doubles, henchildren, alchemists and Demonic madmen.

thanks to the interest in the grotesque and everything supernatural in the 18th century, the night has become a symbol of everything inaccessible to rational knowledge. The Hoffmann transfers a picturesque image of night scenes to literature, like the artist using the effect of sharp contrasts: light and darkness, mind and madness, reality and fantasies, always in contradiction and confrontation with each other.

Turning to the dark aspects of life, The Hoffmann in the spirit of dark romanticism, entering a person into despair, fear and madness, masterfully uses a night metaphor to illuminate the mysterious, gloomy and frightening depths of the human soul.

The book is published in a non -adaptive version. Enjoy the night and mysterious world of Hoffmann's creative fantasy in the original!