E.T.A. Hoffmann (Critical Lives) - Softcover

Chrystal, Paul

 
9781836391012: E.T.A. Hoffmann (Critical Lives)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1836391013 ISBN 13: 9781836391012
Verlag: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

A life of the nineteenth-century German writer and composer most famous for inspiring The Nutcracker.

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) is celebrated for his supernatural fiction such as The Sandman as well as his musical achievements, notably the opera Undine. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to Hoffmann as a Romantic writer, composer, and public figure. It follows his life as a lawyer, theater director, and senior judge in Berlin, where he clashed with authorities over their persecution of student radicals. Drawing on Hoffmann's personal writings and contemporary recollections, Ritchie Robertson also highlights how historical events like Napoleon's invasion disrupted Hoffman's career. Considering his literary and musical contributions together, the book presents Hoffmann as a multifaceted artist whose inventiveness, both comic and spine-chilling, remains influential today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ritchie Robertson is a Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford, and Emeritus Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford. His books include Friedrich Nietzsche (Reaktion Books, 2022) and German Political Tragedy: The Machiavellian Plot and the Necessary Crime (2024).

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Verlag
Reaktion Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1836391013
ISBN 13 
9781836391012
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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