Night Pieces

This edition is in German. In his famous cycle "Night Studies", world-renowned German writer Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann included eight mystical novellas that immerse the reader in a sinister and dangerous world of doubles, necromancers, alchemists, and demonic madmen. Due... to the increased interest in the grotesque and the supernatural in the 18th century, night became a symbol of all that is inaccessible to rational understanding. Hoffmann's vivid depiction of night scenes transports them into literature, using sharp contrasts like a painter: light and darkness, reason and madness, reality and fantasy, always in contradiction and conflict with each other. Addressing the dark sides of life that plunge humans into despair, fear, and madness, Hoffmann masterfully uses the night metaphor in the spirit of dark romanticism to illuminate the mysterious, gloomy, and terrifying depths of the human soul. The book is published in an unadapted version. Enjoy the night and mysterious world of Hoffmann's creative imagination in the original!