Sanding man and other night sketches. Hoffman E.T.A.

The works included in this book open the reader the night, dark, irrational side of the creative fantasy of the German writer-romantic Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann-the author of the famous fairy tales about the golden pot, the Nutcracker and the baby Tsahesus and the tragic-improvised (and at the same time at the same time Parodic) Roman about the musician Johannnges Kreisler and his pet Kota Murra. This is another Hoffmann, the Hoffman's “Elixirs of Satan” and “Night Studies”, Gothic, dangerous, distant, phantasmagorically vulnerable, seeing terrible hidden abysses in the human soul and in the surrounding world and overcoming them surrounded by ghosts and doubles generated by his own imagination...