Lebensansichten des Katers Murr by E. T. A. Hoffmann
"Lebensansichten des Katers Murr" by E. T. A. Hoffmann is a satirical novel published between 1819 and 1821. This ingenious work interweaves two seemingly separate biographies: the self-satisfied memoirs of Murr, an educated cat who narrates his own life and bildung, and fragmentary passages from the biography of Johannes Kreisler, a tormented musical genius. The novel's playful structure arises from a fictitious accident—Murr allegedly tore up Kreisler's biography to use as scrap
paper while writing his own memoir, and the printer mistakenly published both texts together, creating a deliberately fragmented masterpiece. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822 |
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| Title |
Lebensansichten des Katers Murr nebst fragmentarischer Biographie des Kapellmeisters Johannes Kreisler in zufälligen Makulaturblättern |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_the_Tomcat_Murr Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebens-Ansichten_des_Katers_Murr |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Norbert H. Langkau, Carlos Valiente, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Cats -- Fiction |
| Subject | Conductors (Music) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 38780 |
| Release Date | Feb 6, 2012 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jun 27, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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