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Great Science-Fiction a critical list with discussions Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books by E. T. A. Hoffmann
A Few Words About E. T. A. Hoffmann[Discussion: tba]A Hoffmann BibliographyA complete bibliography of Hoffmann's work is hard to assemble. What follows is my best attempt at cobbling together the diverse and often contradictory partial bibliographies to be found here and there. (One big problem is that many listings include only titles in English, but the same story can have many different English titles.) For that reason, in the lists below the original title is given first, followed by some of the English-language forms used for it. NovelsWhat constitutes a "novel" among Hoffmann's works is open to debate. This list relies chiefly on length, but also on whether or not the tale was ever included in an omnibus edition. Because this list includes all of Hoffmann's work, the titles that are speculative fiction are shown in boldface.
StoriesSome of these appeared independently, but most were in his major collections, Fantasy Pieces in the Manner of Callot, Night Pieces, and The Serapion Brotherhood. They are listed below in order of appearance of the original collections holding them (not of the individual stories themselves), with a breakout by collection title. Note that most of the collections were originally issued in multiple volumes; here I have considered each to be a unit. While many--perhaps most--of Hoffmann's tales have a fantastic element, not all do; but I have made no attempt to separate out the "fantastic" from the "mundane" in this list. Moreover, only a few of these tales are now available in English, at least without spending the GNP of a small nation on some obscure out-of-print edition. Note that the boldfacing of the original titles does not signify whether or not they are fantastic--it is only to make the entries a little more readable. The story lists omit introductions and other non-fiction, but I have left in them the "Kreisleriana" pieces: a set of literary reflections on music mostly related by the fictitious Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler, who also appears in the novel Tomcat Murr. As one commentator said, Hoffmann "had invented poor Johannes Kreisler as a symbol for the misunderstood musician, painting him as a kind of clown"; another described Kreisler as "eccentric, antisocial, and ingenious". Most of the pieces by "Kreisler" are thus not "tales", but still embody some fictive elements. (Note that Robert Schumann wrote a series of piano pieces entitled "Kreisleriana" in tribute to Hoffmann.) Phantasiestücke in Callots Manier [Fantasy Pieces in Callot's Manner]
Nachtstücke [Night Pieces or Nocturnes]
Die Serapions-Brüder [The Serapion Brotherhood]
Uncollected Pieces(Not necessarily in chronological order--I have shown the year where I have found it listed somewhere, though some sources disagree.)
Notable Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books by E. T. A. Hoffmann ***
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