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Thoughts on E.T.A. Hoffmann?

>> No.14335884

>>14335880
Tales of Hoffmann is based on his stories, right? I like the doll's aria.

>> No.14335906

>>14335884
Yeah, he's pretty important in the musical world, but I never really hear anybody talk about his own literature.

>> No.14335920

I read the Sandman for a German class. Probably the best book we read in the class, but my German is shit so it was very hard.
I felt like it contextualized Kafka a bit for me. Germans with their uncanny kind of horror. You even see a little bit of that in Goethe.

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Reading the into/biographical material of a collection, I think I shall enjoy it much.
Can’t find a pdf of Tomcat Murr anywhere.

>> No.14336136

>>14336130
*intro. Fuck spellcheck

>>14335920
Neat. Will read

>> No.14336146

I've read Das Fräulein von Scuderi for a presentation I did for my German class maybe two years ago but I don't remember anything at all about it.
Wasn't particularly outstanding or bad is what that means, I suppose.

>> No.14336152

I began reading Tomcat Murr a few days ago, and it is fun. Liking the Murr excerpts better than the Kreisler ones so far.

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>>14336130
What’s the story behind this?

>> No.14336201

Just read Freud reading the Hoff, it's more fun.

>> No.14336208

>>14336201
No, screw you. I won't.

>> No.14336229

>>14336152
Read it just a couple weeks ago. I liked the form a lot - even more in retrospect, especially how the Kreisler biography is chopped and mixed up. The way the Murr story is told is very charming and pretty funny and humorous as a caricature of a Bildungsroman. What a pitty that he didn't finish the third part.

>> No.14336239

>>14335880
Highly based, Sandman is great

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>>14336184
Its a cringey forgery

>> No.14336279

>>14335880
I had to read "der goldene Topf" in school; it was pretty good. Can his other works hold up to it?

>> No.14336372

Just saw the kantbot thread didn't you?