1822
2 books
- The sentences alone are worth it, long baroque things that wander and land. You get his hungry teenage years on the London streets with poor Ann, then the dreams turn strange and terrifying.
- Hoffmann at his oddest, and that's saying something: a shy recluse who buys himself Christmas gifts gets tangled up with the king of the fleas, feuding microscope-wizards, and a lens that shows him what people are really thinking. Go in loose; logic isn't the point, the giddy strangeness is.