Night Pieces

The 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, sorcerers, alchemists, and demonic madmen. Thanks... to the increased interest in the grotesque and everything supernatural in the 18th century, night became a symbol of everything inaccessible to rational knowledge. Hoffmann's vivid depiction of nighttime scenes translates into literature, akin to an artist using the effect of sharp contrasts: light and darkness, reason and madness, reality and fantasy, always in contradiction and conflict with each other. Addressing the darker sides of life, plunging man into despair, fear, and madness, Hoffmann, in the spirit of dark romanticism, masterfully employs the night metaphor 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!