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Synopsis
E.T.A. Hoffmann's famous tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King may seem almost over-familiar as the inspiration for TcHaikovsky's equally famous ballet (in fact based on a French retelling of Hoffmann's original German tale). However, its translation is rarely ever entire. This edition displays the full range of Hoffmann's quirky powers of invention. Here is the whole text in English, together with another less known tale, The Strange Child, in which Felix and Christlieb, the son and daughter of a country gentleman, Sir Thaddeus, meet a child in the woods. To Felix their new playmate appears a boy, to Christlieb another little girl. They are not the first of their family to have met the strange child.
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Review
Fascinating and marvelous material (Richard Wagner)
I have been reading off and on a few things by the ‘mad’ Hoffmann, mad, fantastic stuff, here and there a brilliant thought (Sigmund Freud)
Long before his death he was the kind of author anyone who reads at all reads (R.J. Hollingdale)
Take a vigorous imagination and a perfectly clear spirit, a bitter melancholia and an inexhaustible appetite for buffoonery and extravagance: a man who can draw with a firm literary hand the most fantastic figures, who can conjure up the strangest scenes through the clearness of his narrative and the truth of his detail, who can make one dream, laugh and shiver at the same time, who writes like Callot, with the inventiveness of the Arabian Nights and the storytelling ability of Walter Scott, and there you have Hoffmann (André-Marie Ampère Le Globe 1823)
About the Author
E T A HOFFMANN (1776-1822) was a German author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. He is the subject and hero of Offenbach's famous but fictional opera The Tales of Hoffmann and is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement.
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- PublisherPushkin Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1906548315
- ISBN 13 9781906548315
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages208
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