THE TALES OF HOFFMANN Author:E.T.A Hoffmann E.T.A. Hoffmann was Germany's greates Romantic storyteller, the creator of tales in which, as Balzac said, "things seem not to exist but live just the same." The impact of these incredibly diversified tales is all the more stunning because Hoffmann was aware, long before the advent of psychoanalysis, of the threat of eruption from the unconscio... more »us. The weird lands he explores lie within ourselves.« less