Quotes from E. T. A. Hoffmann's books, and about them
My Life on Tales: “All I had ever read in Hoffmann's Tales of certain demoniacal intrigues”
I Am a Cat on The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr: “I had thought no cat could be as discerning as I, but the other day an unknown kinsman, Kater Murr, suddenly started holding forth boastfully and gave me a start. It seems he died a hundred years ago. [auto-translated]”