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The Devil's Elixir - Volume 1

E. T. A. Hoffmann

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. . .By this homage, my zeal was proportionably increased. I endeavoured more and more to give to my periods the proper rounding, and to adorn my discourses throughout, with all the flowers of eloquence. I succeeded always more and more in fettering the attention of my audience, until my fame became such, that the attention paid to me was more like the homage and veneration due to a saint, than approbation bestowed on any ordinary mortal. A kind of religious delirium now prevailed through the town. Even on ordinary week days, and on half-holidays, the inhabitants came in crowds, merely to see Brother Medardus, and to hear him speak, though but a few words.

Thus vanity gradually, by imperceptible, but sure approaches, took possession of my heart. Almost unconsciously, I began to look upon myself as the one elect,—the pre-eminently chosen of Heaven. Then the miraculous circumstances attending my birth at the Lime-Tree; my father's forgiveness of a mortal crime; t. . . Read More

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Man and devil… Their relationship disturbs human minds since the ancient times… In The Devil’s Elixir E. T. A. Hoffmann tells us about this relationship and his narration is full of satirical motifs.
Medardus is a young Capuchin friar… He is gratefully listening to his Prior’s admonitions…
“Heaven pro

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