Fantasy Pieces in Callot's Manner
By:Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
Published on 1996 by Syracuse University Press
|Among the many works in the Romantic ground-swell that marked a transformation of the artistic imagination, none is more fascinating or more revealing than a remarkable collection of prose published anonymously in 1814. The sole credit of authorship rested in the subtitle, Blatter aus dem Tagebuche eines reisenden Enthusiasten - itself a manifesto-in-miniature of the new Romantic creed. The |Enthusiast| (literally, |one inspired or possessed by a god,| a term previously applied in mockery) was E.T.A. Hoffmann, a struggling composer with a history of misadventure in his bureaucratic career; the description of his book as |diary pages| suggested intimate, spontaneous outpourings, unfiltered by art's traditional rules.| |The German title, Fantasiestucke in Callots Manier, evokes association with Lehrstucke, what the apprentice offers to prove his command of his craft; |in Callot's Manner| extends this embedded simile by indicating that the contents demonstrate mastery in a certain style - one of the tests of an apprentice. Fantasy Pieces, then, should be regarded not merely as a selection of new and fugitive writings but as a sampler - pointedly derived, moreover, from fantasy, that revolutionary quality raised to pre-eminence by the Romantic artist.| |Curiously, no earlier English edition of a complete Fantasy Pieces has appeared, and two of its major tales, |The Recent Adventures of the Dog Berganza| and |The Mesmerist,| have never previously been available in English. Hoffmann's Anglophone readers have also been hampered by pared down, stilted, or careless renderings.| |Joseph Hayse's translation, painstakingly accurate in the face of syntactical difficulties, conveys the flavor of Hoffmann's language; the greater effect of his effort, however, lies in presenting Hoffmann's first volume complete. A multifaceted document of an emergent genius, it also illuminates the complex mind of a new age.|--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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