Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780226347899 (0226347893)
Publish date: May 15th 1972
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 279
Edition language: English
What role does art play in the pursuit of happiness? Does it mine all the beauty in the world and then refine it until the ore has been purified into unadulterated gold, or does beauty only enchant us the more because of the dross from which we try to separate it? Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, tho...