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Title: Is Hoffmann insane? Decide for yourself.
Review: If you are looking for a stylized page turner, ala the Da Vinci Code, then don't waste your time on this book. These tales require a little bit more effort. Hoffmann wrote them almost 200 years ago for a primarily female audience. Many were overwhelmed by his fertile imagination (Goethe thought that Hoffmann was insane). Today's reader, of course, will find them quite tame.A weird logic reigns in all of these tales. In reading them, you'll gain an insight into that strange train wreck of natural philosophy, occultism and aesthetics known as German Romanticism.The translations, though uninspired, are adequate. My favorite tale is The Sandman. Stepford Wives?
