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E. T. A. Hoffmann (1681 words) |
 | Hoffmann is one of those artists whose works were so influential in their own day that they have been adapted into oblivion. |
| Hoffmann's first literary work, and only completed novel Die Elixiere des Teufels (The Devil's Elixir) was written in 1816, and translated into English in 1824, thence to a stage production (by Fitzball) with the alactricity characterising the period (as far as decadent young monks were concerned, anyhow). |
| Hoffmann can, even in his short stories, be described as gothic; but if you take the term 'gothic' in it's literal sense this is hardly surprising. |
| The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) (709 words) |
| So great is his joy, it doesn't occur to Hoffmann to take off the glasses, or perhaps to actually speak to the thing; he got a pretty good look at her from across the room and that's enough to know he's in love. |
| Hoffmann's (Robert Rounseville) next mistake is to fall for the Devil's assistant, who—again, from across the room—looks good, and so inspires him to begin a declaration of love anew. |
| In the third tale, the hapless Hoffmann falls for a woman crippled with consumption and under the care of an evil doctor determined to finish her off. |
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