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A review by seven17teenblack
Nussknacker und Mäusekönig - Ein Weihnachtsmärchen für Kinder und Erwachsene: Klassische Weihnachtsgeschichten by E.T.A. Hoffmann
4.0
I can only imagine how much the English translation must suck because I don‘t think someone would be able to translate the complexity of such a story and its language.
The story is pretty much Hoffmann and the reader can clearly sense his repetitive motives; the puppets, the scary characters (Coppelius in The Sandman, Archivarius in The Golden Pot and Drosselmeier here) and the main character‘s delusion. But the story doesn‘t appear to be boring at all. Especially the fairytale makes the whole work itself look like a nut; it all builds up to the climax, which happens to be the inserted fairytale in the middle, while the beginning and the end lay around it like a shell. Hoffmann really showed off.
Would highly recommend reading this if you‘re into romantic literature.
The story is pretty much Hoffmann and the reader can clearly sense his repetitive motives; the puppets, the scary characters (Coppelius in The Sandman, Archivarius in The Golden Pot and Drosselmeier here) and the main character‘s delusion. But the story doesn‘t appear to be boring at all. Especially the fairytale makes the whole work itself look like a nut; it all builds up to the climax, which happens to be the inserted fairytale in the middle, while the beginning and the end lay around it like a shell. Hoffmann really showed off.
Would highly recommend reading this if you‘re into romantic literature.