Ritter Gluck (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman
- First Published: 1809
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: 1809
- Setting: Berlin
- Principal Characters: A man, The narrator
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Art or artists, Creative process, Composers
- Locales: Berlin, Germany
The Story
On a beautiful fall afternoon, the first-person narrator, a passionate lover of music, sits in one of Berlin's well-known cafés, desperately trying to escape from the loud racket of its obligatory music into the world of pleasant reveries. Brought back from his dreams by the offensive tune of a particularly vile waltz, he suddenly notices that an older man of strikingly mysterious countenance and demeanor has joined him at his table. In an ensuing conversation, the stranger disagrees with the narrator's harsh criticism of the musicians and, to prove his point, asks...
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