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E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) är en av den tyska romantikens främsta mångsysslare. Han var bl.a. verksam som musiker, kompositör, bildkonstnär och jurist. Som författare var han berömd redan under sin livstid. Att han med största sannolikhet också influerade Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) var något den amerikanske författaren dock aldrig erkände. Hoffmann är en klassisk skräckmästare som även lade grunden för fantasygenren, men han är också en av deckarens urfäder. I Hoffmanns tankeväckande, gåtfulla och gärna på historiska fakta baserade berättelser är hotet från det okända aldrig långt borta, oavsett om det handlar om en galen seriemördare, ett giftmord som planeras eller ett spöklikt hus som ruvar på otäcka gåtor. Gränsen mellan vansinne och verklighet är ibland synnerligen hårfin.
Hoffmann är flitigt översatt till svenska i både akademiska och populära utgåvor. Men att som nu samla fyra av hans berättelser och kalla dem proto-krim är ett nytt grepp. I Alephs deckarbibliotek försvarar Hoffmann sin plats med den äran: Här finns prov på den seriemördande galningen, den kvinnliga privatspanaren, upp-i-rök-försvinnandet, den ockulta deckaren och slutligen en alldeles egen version av det som modernt brukar kallas för länstolsdetektiv. Denne stolsbundne, döende iakttagare är författarens alter ego, som utan att lämna sitt rum ändå lyckas dra slutsatser och leda i bevisning vad folk gör och vilka de är, där han observerar dem på ett torg från sitt hörnfönster.
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"The godfather of modern horror and fantasy... Hoffmann's true sorcery is his ability to transfer his characters' private experiences into the reader. His stories teach us to respect the uncanny depths inside of any 'ordinary' human being." - The New York Review of Books
"Hoffman was the true inventor ... of so much that makes literature pleasurable." - Gilbert Adair
"The products of a mind so brilliant, wild and singular as that of Hoffmann may long hover in the remembrance of the world." - Thomas Carlyle
Three uncanny tales from a master of macabre fantasy whose work inspired Kafka and Poe, translated by J.T. Bealby and Thomas Carlyle.
This collection of three uncanny tales highlights the best of a 19th-century German author who is seen by many as the father of modern sci-fi and fantasy. In "The Sandman", young Nathanael grows up terrified of a legendary figure who will steal his eyes if he's caught out of bed at night - but it's only when Nathanael has grown to adulthood, seemingly settled and happy, that the full, terrifying truth unfolds. A living doll, a series of doppelgangers, and the seeds of madness combine in this classic story of self-destruction.
"The Cremona Violin" also deals with obsession and thwarted desire, this time between an overbearing father and a musically talented daughter who may die of heart failure if she unleashes the full power of her extraordinary voice. Suppressed passion and possessive control prove a fatal mix in this powerful and claustrophobic story. "The Golden Pot", meanwhile, is a novella-length tale which Hoffmann believed was his masterpiece. Disturbing, exciting and dream-like, it introduces us to the bumbling Anselmus, whose romantic tribulations are complicated by a witch's curse and the fact that he's in love with a girl who also happens to be a snake.
Influential in the worlds of both literature and music during his lifetime, Hoffmann's doppelgangers, unattainable love objects and sinister puppet masters have lived on, becoming key figures in the modern imagination.
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a writer, artist and composer, and one of the major figures of the German Romantic movement. Hoffmann qualified in law and held posts in the Prussian bureaucracy, moving between Berlin, Warsaw and smaller provincial cities. A tendency to dissolution and a scandal caused by his military caricatures hampered his official career, but his work as a writer and composer drew increasing praise and attention. Eventually, in 1814, he left employment so as to collaborate with theatre and opera companies, and from this point published his most famous collections of stories.
Hoffmann's drinking kept pace with his renown, however, and he died of complications from syphilis and alcohol abuse aged only forty-six. His darkly imaginative works are still celebrated as foundational texts of modern sci-fi, fantasy and horror. His writing inspired Freud and has been adapted many times, notably in two famous ballets, The Nutcracker and Coppélia, and to create Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann.
John Thomas Bealby (1858-1944), a scholar at Cambridge, was a translator and an expert on Central Asia. He was also an editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish historian and philosopher, and one of the dominant intellectual figures of the Victorian era. He wrote prolifically but is best remembered for his history of the French Revolution.