Dec 30, 2009
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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