Anthropomorphic Carrot
Polly Dickson: Tales from Hoffmann, 23 January 2025
‘The Golden Pot’ and Other Tales of the Uncanny
by E.T.A. Hoffmann, translated by Peter Wortsman.
Archipelago, 425 pp., £14.99, October 2023,978 1 953861 70 2 Show More
by E.T.A. Hoffmann, translated by Peter Wortsman.
Archipelago, 425 pp., £14.99, October 2023,
The Wounded Storyteller: The Traumatic Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann
by E.T.A. Hoffmann, translated by Jack Zipes.
Yale, 277 pp., £30, April 2023,978 0 300 26319 0 Show More
by E.T.A. Hoffmann, translated by Jack Zipes.
Yale, 277 pp., £30, April 2023,
“... real world and an ideal alternative. Both Jack Zipes’s The Wounded Storyteller and Peter Wortsman’s ‘The Golden Pot’ and Other Tales of the Uncanny include translations of ‘The Sandman’, Hoffmann’s most famous text. ‘The Sandman’, the ur-text on the Doppelgänger, has been the object of a dizzying number of readings, among ... ”
