The Woman with the Velvet Necklace
3 hrs. 30 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Alexandre Dumas
Author
Alexandre Dumas
Narrator
Ilya Akintyev
Narrator
Ilya Akintyev
Description
The first chapter of this short historical-mystical novel by Alexander Dumas, written in 1850, is autobiographical. Dumas mentions Charles Nodier (1780–1844), a writer and close friend, in whose home he was received in Paris and through whom he was introduced to the intellectual life of the capital. As he says, it was from Nodier that he learned the story he goes on to tell.
From the very beginning, the tone is set: the real and the fictional are intertwined without a seam…
The novel’s hero is Hoffmann—supposedly E.T.A. Hoffmann (the German writer and composer, 1776–1822, author of many fantastic tales)—whose works Dumas prepared for the stage. (In truth, the real Hoffmann’s initial hides the name Amadeus, while in Dumas’s character the third name is Wilhelm.) In Mannheim, where he settled, Hoffmann became passionately in love with Antonia, the daughter of the conductor Gotlieb Murr, whom he later seduced. But Hoffmann also cherishes a dream—to discover Paris, the city that enchants him…
From the very beginning, the tone is set: the real and the fictional are intertwined without a seam…
The novel’s hero is Hoffmann—supposedly E.T.A. Hoffmann (the German writer and composer, 1776–1822, author of many fantastic tales)—whose works Dumas prepared for the stage. (In truth, the real Hoffmann’s initial hides the name Amadeus, while in Dumas’s character the third name is Wilhelm.) In Mannheim, where he settled, Hoffmann became passionately in love with Antonia, the daughter of the conductor Gotlieb Murr, whom he later seduced. But Hoffmann also cherishes a dream—to discover Paris, the city that enchants him…
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