E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), one of the most brillant, fascinating and famous figures of the romantic period, has been living in the small and quite provincial Bavarian town Bamberg for five years.
In his new novel Peter Härtling tells the story of these years, when this most talented musician, composer, author, painter and judge deeply falls in love with Julia, a young girl taking singing lessons and the prototype of Hoffmann´s childlike women figures. It´s the story of his very deep and not always platonic love, the story of burning desire, an eroticism between idealization and pure phyiscal lust, which gives the all-rounder E.T.A. Hoffmann the explosive power.
An intense and fascinating novel that brings to life the eroticism, the desire and the tension of E.T.A. Hoffmann´s intermost part.
