“Tales of the Night” by the German writer, composer, and artist E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), who created his own special aesthetic, is published in full in Russian for the first time.
This is a whole world where the real and the unreal are oddly mixed, where ghostly, fantastic images rule all events and destinies by an unavoidable mystical force. It is an image of the “night side of the soul,” a poetic fixation of the unknown and mysterious—of what is glimpsed and felt in life, influencing human fates, unsettling the mind and imagination.
Contents:
The Sandman
Ignaz Denner
The Church of the Jesuits in Ge
Sanctus
The Empty House
MayoR
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The Vow
Stone Heart