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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

By E. T. A. Hoffmann
Introduction by Jeremy Adler
Translated by Anthea Bell
Notes by Anthea Bell

By E. T. A. Hoffmann
Introduction by Jeremy Adler
Translated by Anthea Bell
Notes by Anthea Bell

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Nov 01, 1999 | ISBN 9780140446319

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About The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

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.

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E. T. A. HOFFMAN (1776-1822) was one of the best known and most influential authors of his time. He exploited the grotesque and the bizarre in a manner unmatched by any other Romantic writer. The Nutcracker and the Mouse King was written… More about E. T. A. Hoffmann

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Category: Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction

Paperback | $19.00
Published by Penguin Classics
Nov 01, 1999 | 384 Pages | ISBN 9780140446319

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