Article 2023
Die imaginierten Abenteuer eines Mönchs. E.T.A. Hoffmanns "Die Elixiere des Teufels" als Ausdruck romantischer Unsicherheit
Authors / editors: Magda Jaglewicz
Published in: Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia
This article analyses the madness motif in "Die Elixiere des Teufels" written by E.T.A. Hoffmann. There is consensus among literary scholars, that the novel’s protagonist exemplifies the problem of the split ego, the accompanying madness, and the impossibility of deciding for one…
DOI: 10.18276/cgs.2023.32-02 · ISSN: 2450-8543