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Title	:	Der Sandmann
Author	:	E.T.A. Hoffmann
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 83 pages
Published	:	1986 by Insel Verlag (first published January 19th 1816)
Categories	:	Classics. Horror. European Literature. German Literature. Short Stories. Academic. School

Der Sandmann Paperback | Pages: 83 pages

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I read this rather (no very) creepy tale years ago, and while I truly enjoyed and above all appreciated E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann, I also do not much feel like a detailed and intense rereading at this time, as the plot, the thematics actually repeatedly produced some rather vivid and glaring nightmares when I perused it, first for a German Romanticism course in undergrad and then later for my PhD Comprehensive Examinations (I still recall that there were dancing mechnical maniacal dolls, and a sandman who was anything but benevolent and was forever watching me with strange eyes, monitoring me, and during my PhD Comprehensive preparation phase, even nastily admonishing me to read my massive and awe-inspiring reading list always and ever faster and faster, yikes, it still gives me the shivers). A most definitely imaginative and wonderful, but also more than disturbing sojourn into E.T.A. Hoffmann's dark, grasping and uncanny night of the soul (interesting, even fun at times, but Der Sandmann is basically a story that is for all intents and purposes presents a 19th century horror genre experiment), and is thus most definitely a fairy tale (a Kunstmärchen) for adults, and NOT really appropriate for young children. And by the way, the "dancing doll" episode in Jacques Offenbach's famous opera, The Tales of Hoffmann, while brilliant and evocative in and of itself, is also (at least from a creepiness and uncanniness point of view) but a pale and tame reflection of Der Sandmann (on which the episode is distinctly but still rather loosely based).

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Original Title:	Der Sandmann
ISBN:	3458326340 (ISBN13: 9783458326342)
Edition Language:	German

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If, like a bold painter, you had first sketched in a few audacious strokes the outline of the picture you had in your own soul, you would then easily have been able to deepen and intensify the colors one after the other, until the varied throng of living figures carried your friends away and they, like you, saw themselves in the midst of the scene that had proceeded out of your own soul.We had to read The Sandman for our literature seminar. I was looking forward to it. I had never read anything

A perfect Halloween read, short and creepy. There wasn't much to this story beyond a dark twist on the Sandman folk tale, but it mostly worked.

I have never read any of ETA Hoffmann and this gothic German horror tale is a good introduction. Nathanaels slow road to madness brought about by his fathers death to who he saw as the Sandman. The Sandman is a bogeyman who sprinkles sand on childrens eyes and they pop out if the child does not go to sleep. I am glad my mum left this fairy tale out of her stories when I was a child! I cannot help thinking insomnia could be linked to a few fairytales. Nathaniel has a loving girlfriend and goes

I started reading Hoffmann with this book and I think its a good introduction to his works and his way of thinking. The book is about a guy lost between reality and dreams. In this book he deals with industrialism and whats happening to us as human beings. Hoffmanns an early romantic and his way of narrating the story is one of a kind and amazingly symbolic. Freud has written an essay on this book but I dont really recommend it cause its super phallocentrique and in my opinion not really what

The Sandman has a bit for everyone, although its the dark chocolate pack, not your average Easter basket.One side of it is that Hoffmann writes tales for adults. Many of us learn to let go of the monsters that would surely come to punish us should we be naughty. Nowhere is the transition as clear as it is here, as Hoffmann builds upon the granny scaring young Nathanael with the story of the Sandman and builds him into a monster that feeds on narcissism, obsession and vanity, when Nathanael

I really enjoyed this. I've never read anything by E.T.A. Hoffmann before (the Sandman is part of my assigned reading for a class I'm taking this semester) but it was a really good read. Reminded me of Frankenstein in a lot of places (Nathanael's actions and letters basically screamed Victor Frankenstein to me as well as the origin of him and Clara's relationship) especially with the whole 'how far can we go with science and technology in terms of humanity' thing that Olimpia represented. The

I read this rather (no very) creepy tale years ago, and while I truly enjoyed and above all appreciated E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann, I also do not much feel like a detailed and intense rereading at this time, as the plot, the thematics actually repeatedly produced some rather vivid and glaring nightmares when I perused it, first for a German Romanticism course in undergrad and then later for my PhD Comprehensive Examinations (I still recall that there were dancing mechnical maniacal dolls,