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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

✍ Scribed by Hoffmann, E T A

Book ID: 108614658
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Year: 2008
Tongue: en-GB
Weight: 968 KB
Series: Penguin Classics
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780141937311

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✦ Synopsis

It was E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776 --1822) who first explored many of the themes and techniques which were later used by writers from Dickens to Dostoyevsky, Poe to Kafka, Baudelaire to Marquez. His career reached a glorious climax in The Tomcat Murr , perhaps the strangest novel of the nineteenth century.

Hoffmann was a follower of Cervantes and Sterne, a pioneering 'magic realist', fascinated by Gothic horror, extreme mental states and supernatural events occurring within sharply (and sometimes satirically) rendered social settings. A talented composer and painter, he portrayed himself in the guise of the hypochondriac, antisocial and moody but brilliant musician Johannes Kreisler. In this astonishing book, a vain and very bourgeois tomcat sets out to write his memoirs, using a biography of Kreisler as a blotting pad. By a printer's error, the two lives get spliced together into a bizarre double narrative. A supreme example of literary bravado, _The Tomcat...

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