Night Pieces

Publication in German. In his famous cycle "Night Studies," the 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. Due to... the increased interest in the grotesque and the supernatural in the 18th century, night became a symbol of everything inaccessible to rational understanding. Hoffmann's picturesque depiction of night scenes brings to literature, like a painter, the effect of sharp contrasts: 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 man into despair, fear, and madness, Hoffmann, in the spirit of dark romanticism, masterfully uses the night metaphor to illuminate the mysterious, gloomy, and frightening 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!