E. T. A. Hoffmann e a formação parodística
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-1184.v0i28p54-65Keywords:
Bildungsroman, Formation, Hoffmann, Murr, ParodyAbstract
The literary relations between E. T. A. Hoffmann and his time extend through several times and several authors and subjects. Among them, the Bildungsroman (novel of education, formation), with a marked relevance in the end of the 18th and the 19th Century onwards, was approached in a peculiar way by this author of the late German Romanticism. This essay seeks firstly to outline the literary relationships between the author of the Bildungsroman par excellence, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (the first Wilhelm Meister), and E. T. A. Hoffmann, his contemporary. Afterwards, it will be addressed how Hoffmann incorporated the idea of the Bildungsroman, but also added to his work a high ironic and comic content, making the concept of ‘education’ (Bildung) a parody in The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr.