5/29/2023 0 Comments The golden pot eta hoffmann![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she suddenly disappears, he is beside himself.Īnselmus later chances to meet his friend, Assistant Headmaster Paulmann, who invites him to his home. One of them, who has marvelous blue eyes, stretches herself (snakes are grammatically feminine in German) out towards him, and he instantly falls in love with her. He looks up and beholds three green-gold snakes. There, coming from an elder tree, he hears melodious voices and the sounds of crystal bells. She reviles him prophetically with the words "Yes, run! Run, you child of Satan! Run into the crystal which will soon be your downfall." He flees and stops only when he has reached the banks of the River Elbe. The novella, which comprises twelve "vigils" (chapters), begins with the clumsy student Anselmus running through the Black Gate in Dresden, where he knocks over the basket of wares of a hideous old applemonger, scattering them in all directions. Lange (1982, ix) has written that a "simple summary becomes entirely inadequate when we attempt to interpret the intricate texture of ambivalence and illusion that spreads lavishly before the reader." The following synopsis is presented with this limitation in mind. ![]()
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