Thus the search for a synthesis between the ideal and the real, between art and life has not been concluded at the end of Der goldne Topf. Years prior, Charles Manson, himself a big fan of the Beach Boys, Beatles and other bands of the time, claimed that the song “Helter Skelter” directly inspired him to kill all those people. Through all his limbs there went a shock like electricity he quivered in his inmost heart: Usually you can kind of guess it, but a lot of this stuff has me stumped. The Sandman, on the other hand, was quite creepy. The situation is effectively “resolved” when, at the end, Veronica repudiates witchcraft and dark magic as “un-Christian”, and agrees to put it behind her when she marries Hofrath Heerbrand. This duality is reflected in the duplicity of characters. Paperback.Īug 12, Bill rated it it was amazing. Hoffmann Edited and translated by Ritchie Robertson. Hoffmann, Romanticism, Tales of Hoffmann. “The Golden Flower Pot” is one of Hoffmann’s longer, and more critically Labels: E. Hoffmann, The Golden Pot and Other Tales (Oxford: Oxford University. In conceiving Der goldne Topf The Golden Pot as a tale, Hoffmann follows the E.T.A.
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