The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

[Dave Monroe]

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In this astonishing book, a vain and very bourgeois tomcat sets out to
write his memoirs, using a biography of Kreisler as a blotting pad. By
a printer’s error, the two lives get spliced together into a bizarre
double narrative. A supreme example of literary bravado, The Tomcat
Murr is also shot through with the warmth, humanity and almost uncanny
ability to captivate his readers which make Hoffmann the greatest of
German story tellers.

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