The Life And Opinions Of Tomcat Murr

Author : E.T.A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786558943389

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The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann Pdf

In E.T.A. Hoffmann's extraordinary novel, Opinions of the Cat Murr , the reader embarks on a fantastic journey through the routine activities of daily life in 19th century Germany. The confident and eclectic talents of Murr, a creature inspired by Hoffmann's own beloved cat, make him a true feline of the Renaissance, while Kriesler, Hoffmann's alter ego, is a character saturated with romantic sensibility. E.T.A. Hoffmann's strange tale evokes the supernatural, the operatic, the musical, and the psychiatric in a narrative populated by characters who cross the boundaries between madness and sanity, with a style that reflects this uncertainty. The work influenced a diverse group including Gogol, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Kierkegaard, and Jung, and in many ways foreshadowed Freud's ideas about the mysterious. Opinions of the Cat Murr is a classic and is part of the famous collection: 1001 BOOKS to Read Before You Die.

Author : E.T.A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141937311

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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann Pdf

Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly different characters emerge from the confusion - Murr, the confident scholar, lover, carouser and brawler, and the moody, hypochondriac genius Kreisler. In his exuberant and bizarre novel, Hoffmann brilliantly evokes the fantastic, the ridiculous and the sublime within the humdrum bustle of daily life, making The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (1820-22) one of the funniest and strangest novels of the nineteenth century.

Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140446319

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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E. T. A. Hoffmann Pdf

Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly different characters emerge from the confusion - Murr, the confident scholar, lover, carouser and brawler, and the moody, hypochondriac genius Kreisler. In his exuberant and bizarre novel, Hoffmann brilliantly evokes the fantastic, the ridiculous and the sublime within the humdrum bustle of daily life, making The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (1820-22) one of the funniest and strangest novels of the nineteenth century. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Michael Kumpfmüller
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908323552

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The Glory of Life by Michael Kumpfmüller Pdf

The aftermath of Franz Kafka’s love affair with Dora Diamant is legend: refusing to honor his instructions to destroy his work when he died, Diamant saved Kafka’s writings and letters that were in her possession. These were later taken by the Nazis and are still being sought today. Her importance for Kafka’s literary legacy makes their all-too-brief relationship even more intriguing. Set over the course of his last year, The Glory of Life is compelling fictional re-imagining of this fragile, tender romance. In July 1923, Kafka is convalescing by the Baltic Sea when he meets Diamant and they fall in love. He is forty years old and dying of tuberculosis; she is twenty-five and seems to him the essence of life. After a tentative first meeting, the indecisive Kafka moves with Diamant to Berlin, a city in the throes of political upheaval, rising anti-Semitism, and the turmoil of Weimar-era hyperinflation. As his tuberculosis advances, they are forced to leave the city for the Kierling Sanatorium near Vienna, a move that threatens the paradise they have created. The first of Kumpfmüller’s novels to appear in English after his acclaimed The Adventures of a Bed Salesman, The Glory of Life is a meticulously researched and poignant portrait of one of the most enduring authors in world literature. Beautifully crafted, this book is an evocative rumination on the power of love and friendship.

Author : Rafik Schami,Anthea Bell
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781906697327

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Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami,Anthea Bell Pdf

A dead man hangs from the portal of St Paul Chapel in Damascus. He was a Muslim officer and he was murdered. But when Detective Barudi sets out to interrogate the man’s mysterious widow, the Secret Service takes the case away from him. Barudi continues to investigate clandestinely and discovers the murderer’s motive: it is a blood feud between the Mushtak and Shahin clans, reaching back to the beginnings of the 20th century. And, linked to it, a love story that can have no happy ending, for reconciliation has no place within the old tribal structures. Rafik Schami dazzling novel spans a century of Syrian history in which politics and religions continue to torment an entire people. Simultaneously, his poetic stories from three generations tell of the courage of lovers who risk death sooner than deny their passions. He has also written a heartfelt tribute to his hometown Damascus and a great and moving hymn to the power of love.

Author : Evliya Çelebi
Publisher : Eland Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 1906011583

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An Ottoman Traveller by Evliya Çelebi Pdf

Evliya Celebi was the Orhan Pamuk of the 17th century, the Pepys of the Ottoman world - a diligent, adventurous and honest recorder with a puckish wit and humour. He is in the pantheon of the great travel-writers of the world, though virtually unknown to western readers. This translation brings his sparkling work to life.

Author : William Atkins
Publisher : Signal
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780771007712

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The Immeasurable World by William Atkins Pdf

In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, and for readers of Ryszard Kapuscinski and Rory Stewart, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places and their inhabitants. One-third of the earth's land surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy in love, and intrigued by the Desert Fathers who forged Christian monasticism in the Egyptian desert, William Atkins decided to travel in six of the world's driest, hottest places: the Empty Quarter of Oman, the Gobi and Taklamakan Desert of northwest China, the Great Victoria Desert of Australia, the man-made desert of the Aral Sea in Kazkahstan, and the Black Rock and Sonoran Deserts of the American Southwest, and Egypt's Eastern Desert. Each of his travel narratives effortlessly weaves aspects of natural history, historical background, and present-day reportage into a compelling tapestry that reveals the human appeal of these often inhuman landscapes.

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442908079

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The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope Pdf

Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199552474

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The Golden Pot and Other Tales by E. T. A. Hoffmann Pdf

Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, puts in the foreground those tales in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact and conflict. The humour of these tales is a result of the incongruity of supernatural beings at large in an ostentatiously everyday world. They include The Golden Pot, recognized as Hoffmann's masterpiece by himself and posterity; its spine-chilling companion tale, The Sandman, which Offenbach drew on for his opera Tales of Hoffmann, and which Freud examines in his essay `The Uncanny'; two longer and more elaborate fantasies, set respectively in Germany and Italy; and the late story, My Cousin's Corner Window, which shows the powers of the imagination being applied to everyday urban life, and marks a transition in European literature generally from Romanticism to Realism. Ritchie Robertson's detailed introduction places the stories in their intellectual and historical context and explores their compelling narrative complexities.

Author : Ludwig Tieck
Publisher : Gottfried & Fritz
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Puss in Boots by Ludwig Tieck Pdf

Puss in Boots is a children’s fairy-tale that is as old as time. It was first written by the French fabulist, Charles Perrault; it is the story about the third and youngest son of a miller who receives two boots as his inheritance—and that son is, strangely, a cat. Determined to make his master a fortune, the cat bags a rabbit and gives it to the king as a gift from his master. The cat continues to make games and present the king with gifts throughout the whole story. This version was written by German playwright Ludwig Tieck in 1797. Some scholars say that this German adaptation was a precursor of the Theatre of the Absurd. It contains some annotations.

Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521543398

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E. T. A. Hoffmann's Musical Writings by E. T. A. Hoffmann Pdf

This book offers a long-awaited opportunity to assess the thought and influence of one of the most famous of all writers on music and the musical links with his fiction. Containing the first complete appearance in English of Kreisleriana, it reveals a masterpiece of imaginative writing and whose profound humour and irony can now be fully appreciated.

Author : Jan Potocki
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141914138

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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki Pdf

Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters transformed through disguise, magic and illusion, of honour and cowardice, of hauntings and seductions, leap forth to create a vibrant polyphony of human voices. Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provides entertainment on an epic scale.

Author : Cyril Bentham Falls,Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann,Jacques Offenbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MSU:31293020480053

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Tales of Hoffmann by Cyril Bentham Falls,Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann,Jacques Offenbach Pdf

Author : L. Vocelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692759824

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Revered and Reviled by L. Vocelle Pdf

Throughout history the cat has been an indomitable influence on societies and cultures, first as goddess, then as demon, and now as hero and social media empress. Man's view of the cat has come full circle. As both mascot and muse to great adventurers, writers, artists and statesmen, the cat has offered comfort and inspiration. Never obsequious or ordinary, always elegant and inscrutable, the cat has played a fundamental role in civilization through the centuries, and this is its story. -Find out why women and cats have been bound together throughout history. -Ever wondered why the black cat is considered bad luck; why cats were considered good luck on ships and planes? -The answers to these questions and many more are here in this easy to read and fully referenced cat history with over 150 black and white illustrations.

Author : E.T.A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141914886

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Tales of Hoffmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann Pdf

This selection of Hoffmann's finest short stories vividly demonstrates his intense imagination and preoccupation with the supernatural, placing him at the forefront of both surrealism and the modern horror genre. Suspense dominates tales such as Mademoiselle de Scudery, in which an apprentice goldsmith and a female novelist find themselves caught up in a series of jewel thefts and murders. In the sinister Sandman, a young man's sanity is tormented by fears about a mysterious chemist, while in The Choosing of a Bride a greedy father preys on the weaknesses of his daughter's suitors. Master of the bizarre, Hoffman creates a sinister and unsettling world combining love and madness, black humour and bewildering illusion.