This late German romantic confesses Hoffman distinctive concept of the power of music, which, in his view, is not bound as an art with the visible world and belongs to a purely spiritual peace. Just as Hoffman feels unsatisfied that he can not create literature in which to build a self-contained fictional, completely different from the real world reality, he occupies himself as a self-taught, largely intuitive, musician to recreate through his literature his ideal for "Pure music".

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The writer Hoffmann recreates in the image of the crazed Chrysler his idea of music as an art in which the demonic creative spirit - the natural charge of every intellectually eminent person - is emerging. In his novels, "The Tomcat Murr " , Hoffmann, through an artificially simulated "mistake in the set," features separate pages of the artwork of talented court composer Johann Kreisler. This unusual composition of the novel was explained by the author as "printer's distraction," which included pages of Murr 's confessions that served him as blotting paper. Thanks to this idea, the writer, through the overlapping of deliberately broken fragments of two atmospheric and style narratives, has the opportunity to explore in depth the contradictions between the man of art and the ridiculously demanding schnaffe as a profound philosopher and unsurpassed poet. Hitler's long-haunted and dramatic twists of life, a Hoffman-inspired spirit, whose name he often uses as a favorite nickname, interrupts the monotonous confession of the lazy cat, written in a pretentious style. Chrysler's reflections are deep, filled with many sentimental confessions that are deliberately interrupted by the author to embody Murr 's ridiculous, useless, meticulous commentary on banal households and "worries." The constant change of tone in the narrative, from the bourgeois to the satirical, from the irony to the despair, creates the enchanting, enigmatic and subdued atmosphere of the novel.

The Tomcat Murr is ridiculous in "writing" eagerness to play with boring details his childhood, his first friendships, first love passions, their first hopes and disappointments, long feasts with shallow as his companions. The casualties in his life are similar to the poor living experience of some Hoffman's contemporaries. The Romantic novelist achieves the satirical reproof of the mercantilistic spirit of the time, mostly through the serious tone of the banal events and boring adventures in the life of the "learned" cat. The ironic effects are most often generated by the discerning assessments of Abraham, who is particularly important, who, with mistrust and skepticism, monitors the affairs of people. Dedicated in occult sciences and magic maestro Abraham plays an important role in the life of Johann Kraysler. This secret adviser to Prince Ireneus has on it a lot more influence than forty widow of a courtier adviser Bentson closely linked alive with his master. Prince was once the ruler of the microscopic kingdom, but now lives in the town Zighartsvayler should a ridiculous stubbornness lavish but absurd palace etiquette, exercise authority over court of courtiers, including six as ghosts - pathetic remnants of bygone glamorous salon life. Gifted musician Johann Kreisler finds himself at once in this microphone, choked by gossip, intrigue, and groundless illusions. This artist is by nature wild and expansive, easily enthused and discourages causes terror little princess, but the strangeness of his character awakens love and infinite unconscious, Julia, graceful daughter Bentson. He is also attracted to the girl, admired by her equilibrium, attuned to the whirl of romantic experiences alternating in a dizzying rhythm.

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