The Devil’s Elixirs (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman
- First Published: 1815
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: Eighteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Supernatural, Mental illness, Violence, Eighteenth century, Devils or demons, Italy or Italians, Germany or German people, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Dopplegangers
- Locales: Germany, Italy
Places Discussed
Holy Linden. Remote monastery in Prussia in which the monk Medardus (whose given name is Franz) spends his first eighteen months. At its center is a linden tree whose silver- covered trunk is inscribed with an image of the Virgin Mary. The colorful decorations in its chapel are the work of a mysterious foreign painter. (Hoffmann’s own birthplace, Königsberg, was in Prussia).
B. Although this name is unexplained in the text, B. undoubtedly stands for Bamberg, the German town in which Hoffmann worked as a theater producer from 1808 to 1813, before...
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