E. T. A. Hoffmann
E. T. A. Hoffmann This collection of essays addresses a very broad range of E. T. A. Second, his personal life was marked by numerous conflicts with political and social authorities. Hoffmann's most…
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
This collection of essays addresses a very broad range of E. T. A. Second, his personal life was marked by numerous conflicts with political and social authorities. Hoffmann's most significant works, examining them through the lens of "transgression." Transgression bears relevance to Hoffmann's life and professions in three ways.First, his official career path was that of jurisprudence; he was active as a lawyer, a judge and eventually as one of the most important magistrates in Berlin.
Third, his works explore characters and concepts beyond the boundaries of what was considered aesthetically acceptable. Seemingly no matter where he went, he experienced much chaos, grief and impoverishment in leading his always precarious existence. "Normal" bourgeois existence was often juxtaposed to the lives of criminals, sinners, and other deviants, both within the spaces of the known