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The best tales of Hoffmann af E. T. A.…
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The best tales of Hoffmann (udgave 1967)

af E. T. A. Hoffmann, E. F. Bleiler (Redaktør)

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Ten of Hoffmann's greatest tales, enormously popular in Europe but rarely seen in the United States: "The Golden Flower Pot," "Automata," "Nutcracker and the King of Mice," "The Sand Man," and 6 others. Edited and corrected by E. F. Bleiler. Features 7 drawings by Hoffmann.
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Titel:The best tales of Hoffmann
Forfattere:E. T. A. Hoffmann
Andre forfattere:E. F. Bleiler (Redaktør)
Info:New York : Dover Publications, [c1967]. xxxiii + 419 pp.
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From "The Golden Flower Pot" in which the narrator describes to the reader how the Student Anselmus feels when he is held captive inside a corked crystal bottle:
"You are drowned in dazzling splendour; everything around you appears illuminated and begirt with beaming rainbow hues: in the sheen everything seems to quiver and waver and clang and drone. You are swimming, but your are powerless and cannot move, as if you were imbedded in a firmly congealed ether which squeezes you so tightly that it is in vain that your spirit commands your dead and stiffened body. Heavier and heavier the mountainous burden lies on you; more and more every breath exhausts the tiny bit of air that still plays up and down in the tight space around you; your pulse throbs madly; and cut through with horrid anguish, every nerve is quivering and bleeding in your dead agony.
"Favourable reader, have pity on the Student Anselmus! This inexpressible torture seized him in his glass prison: but he felt too well that even death could not release him, for when he had fainted with pain, he awoke again to new wretchedness when the morning sun shone into the room. He could move no limb, and his thoughts struck against the glass, stunning him with discordant clang; and instead of the words which the spirit used to speak from within him he now heard only the stifled din of madness." Kindle location 1584

Compare this to J.B. Ballard's "The Crystal World."
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  Mary_Overton | Jan 1, 2015 |
Hoffman is an undiscovered genius - mad perhaps - but definitely a genius. Of course, he was quite well known in the Nineteenth Century, garnering a well-deserved reputation as a writer of bizarre, macabre, gothic tales full of the unexpected and unexplainable. Originally written in German, these tales are mined from the same dark rich earth that gave birth to Goethe and Kafka, Jung and Freud, Hegel and Mesmer - something of a heavy burden to carry.

This volume, consisting as it does of the "best" tales of Hoffman, contains a wealth of eclectic stories peopled with fractured and tortured characters. It includes, of course, the well known story of the Nutcracker and the King of Mice, although your typical ballet lover might find the story a shade darker and more menacing than contemporary stagings of Tschaikovsky: Godpappa Drosselmeier is a somewhat sinister figure, for example. Still, the tale of the Nutcracker is light fare when compared to works such as the Mines of Falun in which a sailor turns miner at the urgings of a shadowy mentor and pledges his soul to the underworldly Queen of the Mine. This tale becomes more and more sinister with the black pit of the mine eventually swallowing the protagonist in a rock fall, exacting revenge on him for falling in love with human woman. The tale ends when his petrified body is recovered 50 years later.

Of course, all is not as it seems in most of these tales. They can be read as fanciful fairy tales - albeit very dark, adult ones - or they can be seen as investigations of the dark areas of the human psyche, at the edge of madness, where vaguely unusual events suddenly become twisted into disturbing patterns. In the Sandman, for example, the bringer of sleep is given a menacing aspect since his arrival heralds a darkening mood in a little boy's parents. The boy eventually learns that his mother sends him off to bed whenever an alchemist visits his father to perform occult experiments, eventually causing the father's death. The little boy grows up, falls in love with an animated doll and eventually commits suicide in the presence of the "Sandman".

Not all of the tales in the book are unrelentingly dark. Some deal with obsession (The Golden Flower Pot), some are love stories (Tobias Martin, Master Cooper) while others are comic and vaguely satirical (The King's Betrothed). Signor Formica, which apparently was written to explain a painting by Salvator Rosa, has not a drop of the supernatural in it while Automata and A New Year's Adventure have it as their epicenters. Rath Krespel, a story about Hoffman's greatest love, music, leads the reader to think there is something otherworldly occurring but eventually all is explained naturally.

A word about the nature of this edition. It contains a lengthy introduction explaining the context of Hoffman's work and some of his themes and sources. Somewhat to my chagrin, the introduction reveals at it very end, that various writers are responsible for the translation of these tales. While this is not so bad, we are then informed that the author of the introduction has translated the translations into modern English, eliminating anachronistic thee's and thou's. So we are really reading a double translation. While this may make the book a bit easier to follow, it is a bit like looking at an airbrushed photo, taken in dim light, of a reproduction painting. Another minor complaint I have is that the cover artwork of is pink and purple and leaves a distinctly cotton-candy feel to what is, in reality, a gathering of dark, angst-ridden, sturm und drang filled episodes.

Still, the stories are mesmerizing, wonderfully inventive, and full of unexpected twists and intellectual challenges. Their archetypes have inspired many operas and still resonate today in movies such as Bladerunner and Edward Scissorhands. ( )
3 stem Neutiquam_Erro | May 7, 2009 |
Only "Der Sandmann." ( )
  middlemarchhare | Nov 25, 2015 |
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Ten of Hoffmann's greatest tales, enormously popular in Europe but rarely seen in the United States: "The Golden Flower Pot," "Automata," "Nutcracker and the King of Mice," "The Sand Man," and 6 others. Edited and corrected by E. F. Bleiler. Features 7 drawings by Hoffmann.

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