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“The Sandman,” a short story by German writer E. T. A. Hoffmann about a young man named Nathaniel who is traumatized by a childhood experience, explores themes of mental illness.It was included in Hoffmann’s 1814 story collection Nachtstücke.As a boy, Nathaniel conflates the Sandman, a character in a children’s story, with the regular visits of a family friend to his home.
The Sandman Lyrics. NATHANIEL TO LOTHAIRE. Certainly you must all be uneasy that I have not written for so long—so very long. My mother, I am sure, is angry, and Clara will believe that I am ...
However, it is certainly true of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman (1816). Almost unremittingly dark, its bleakness is only tempered, if at all, by occasional bursts of black humour. The plot is underpinned by vague aura of supernatural dread, although from the start there is a strong suggestion that this is a tale not of ghosts or monsters but of a very human madness which may be more ...
About E. T. A. Hoffmann. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was born in 1776 with the name Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann in Königsberg, East Prussia. (Königsberg is now the city of Kaliningrad in Russia.) Hoffmann’s parents separated when he was a small child, and he was mostly brought up by an aunt and uncle. His relatives included several ...
E. T. A. Hoffmann, “The Sandman” (1816) This story follows a man named Nathaniel. As a young boy, Nathaniel comes to know of Coppelius, who Nathaniel believes to have been the cause of his father's death. Years later, Nathaniel meets a man named Coppola and swears it is Coppelius. Clara, sister to Nathaniel's friend Lothaire, replies that ...
18 de feb. de 2014 · Tue 18 Feb 2014 02.30 EST. W hen I was young, the story went roughly as follows: the Sandman was a figure who would sprinkle sand in your eyes – either to help you sleep, or while you slept. The ...
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