The Life And Opinions Of The Tomcat Murr

Author : E.T.A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
ISBN 13 : 6558943387
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr written by E.T.A. Hoffmann and published by Lebooks Editora. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In E.T.A. Hoffmann's extraordinary novel, Opinions of the Cat Murr , the reader embarks on a fantastic journey through the routine activities of daily life in 19th century Germany. The confident and eclectic talents of Murr, a creature inspired by Hoffmann's own beloved cat, make him a true feline of the Renaissance, while Kriesler, Hoffmann's alter ego, is a character saturated with romantic sensibility. E.T.A. Hoffmann's strange tale evokes the supernatural, the operatic, the musical, and the psychiatric in a narrative populated by characters who cross the boundaries between madness and sanity, with a style that reflects this uncertainty. The work influenced a diverse group including Gogol, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Kierkegaard, and Jung, and in many ways foreshadowed Freud's ideas about the mysterious. Opinions of the Cat Murr is a classic and is part of the famous collection: 1001 BOOKS to Read Before You Die.

Author : E.T.A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141937319
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr written by E.T.A. Hoffmann and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0140446311
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Michael Kumpfmüller
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1908323558
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glory of Life written by Michael Kumpfmüller and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aftermath of Franz Kafka’s love affair with Dora Diamant is legend: refusing to honor his instructions to destroy his work when he died, Diamant saved Kafka’s writings and letters that were in her possession. These were later taken by the Nazis and are still being sought today. Her importance for Kafka’s literary legacy makes their all-too-brief relationship even more intriguing. Set over the course of his last year, The Glory of Life is compelling fictional re-imagining of this fragile, tender romance. In July 1923, Kafka is convalescing by the Baltic Sea when he meets Diamant and they fall in love. He is forty years old and dying of tuberculosis; she is twenty-five and seems to him the essence of life. After a tentative first meeting, the indecisive Kafka moves with Diamant to Berlin, a city in the throes of political upheaval, rising anti-Semitism, and the turmoil of Weimar-era hyperinflation. As his tuberculosis advances, they are forced to leave the city for the Kierling Sanatorium near Vienna, a move that threatens the paradise they have created. The first of Kumpfmüller’s novels to appear in English after his acclaimed The Adventures of a Bed Salesman, The Glory of Life is a meticulously researched and poignant portrait of one of the most enduring authors in world literature. Beautifully crafted, this book is an evocative rumination on the power of love and friendship.

Author : Cyril Bentham Falls
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Hoffmann written by Cyril Bentham Falls and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Evliya Çelebi
Publisher : Eland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781906011581
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Ottoman Traveller written by Evliya Çelebi and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evliya Celebi was the Orhan Pamuk of the 17th century, the Pepys of the Ottoman world - a diligent, adventurous and honest recorder with a puckish wit and humour. He is in the pantheon of the great travel-writers of the world, though virtually unknown to western readers. This translation brings his sparkling work to life.

Author : Rafik Schami
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1906697329
Total Pages : 853 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Side of Love written by Rafik Schami and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dead man hangs from the portal of St Paul Chapel in Damascus. He was a Muslim officer and he was murdered. But when Detective Barudi sets out to interrogate the man’s mysterious widow, the Secret Service takes the case away from him. Barudi continues to investigate clandestinely and discovers the murderer’s motive: it is a blood feud between the Mushtak and Shahin clans, reaching back to the beginnings of the 20th century. And, linked to it, a love story that can have no happy ending, for reconciliation has no place within the old tribal structures. Rafik Schami dazzling novel spans a century of Syrian history in which politics and religions continue to torment an entire people. Simultaneously, his poetic stories from three generations tell of the courage of lovers who risk death sooner than deny their passions. He has also written a heartfelt tribute to his hometown Damascus and a great and moving hymn to the power of love.

Author : William Atkins
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385539894
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Immeasurable World written by William Atkins and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year (UK) "William Atkins is an erudite writer with a wonderful wit and gaze and this is a new and exciting beast of a travel book."—Joy Williams In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places. One-third of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy in love, and intrigued by the Desert Fathers who forged Christian monasticism in the Egyptian desert, William Atkins decided to travel in eight of the world's driest, hottest places: the Empty Quarter of Oman, the Gobi Desert and Taklamakan deserts of northwest China, the Great Victoria Desert of Australia, the man-made desert of the Aral Sea in Kazkahstan, the Black Rock and Sonoran Deserts of the American Southwest, and Egypt's Eastern Desert. Each of his travel narratives effortlessly weaves aspects of natural history, historical background, and present-day reportage into a compelling tapestry that reveals the human appeal of these often inhuman landscapes.

Author : Ludwig Tieck
Publisher : Gottfried & Fritz
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puss in Boots written by Ludwig Tieck and published by Gottfried & Fritz. This book was released on 1919 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puss in Boots is a children’s fairy-tale that is as old as time. It was first written by the French fabulist, Charles Perrault; it is the story about the third and youngest son of a miller who receives two boots as his inheritance—and that son is, strangely, a cat. Determined to make his master a fortune, the cat bags a rabbit and gives it to the king as a gift from his master. The cat continues to make games and present the king with gifts throughout the whole story. This version was written by German playwright Ludwig Tieck in 1797. Some scholars say that this German adaptation was a precursor of the Theatre of the Absurd. It contains some annotations.

Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543392
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E. T. A. Hoffmann's Musical Writings written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a long-awaited opportunity to assess the thought and influence of one of the most famous of all writers on music and the musical links with his fiction. Containing the first complete appearance in English of Kreisleriana, it reveals a masterpiece of imaginative writing and whose profound humour and irony can now be fully appreciated.