Tales of Hoffman

[Dave Monroe]

See, e.g., ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=53539

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0106&msg=56504

Miller Frank, Felicia.  The Mechanical Song:
   Women, Voice and the Artificial in Nineteenth
   Century French Narrative.  Stanford, CA:
   Stanford UP, 1995.

http://www.sup.org/cgi-bin/search/book_desc.cgi?book_id=2381%20

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0011&msg=51254

Tiffany, Daniel.  Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern
   Lyric.  Berkeley: U of California P, 2000.

http://www.sup.org/cgi-bin/search/book_desc.cgi?book_id=2381%20

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0011&msg=51011

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0011&msg=51032

Kracauer, Siegfried.  Jacques Offenbach and the
   Paris of His Time.  Trans. Gwenda David and Eric
   Mosbacher.  New York: Zone, 2003 [1937].

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/
item/default.asp?tid=9198&ttype=2

And, of course ...

E.T.A. Hoffamn, "The Sandman" (1814)

http://www.fln.vcu.edu/hoffmann/sand_e.html

http://www.fln.vcu.edu/hoffmann/sand.html

http://www.fln.vcu.edu/hoffmann/sand_e_pics.html

http://www.fln.vcu.edu/hoffmann/sand_pics.html

--- Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I've just recently been made aware of the Offenbach
> opera "The Tales of Hoffman."  I haven't seen it yet
> (I hear the 1951 film version directed by Michael
> Powell is very good), but the synopsis makes me
> think Pynchon must have found it a partial
> inspiration for his novel "V."  The story centers
> on Hoffman's encounters with a series of enticing
> females ...


		
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