![]() ![]() He is ignorant of his family history and what he knows about his childhood is based upon fragments of memory and a few events his mother has explained to him. The Devil's Elixirs is predominantly a first-person narrative related by the Capuchin monk Medardus. It can be classified in the subgenre of dark romanticism, and was said by scholars of his era to fall within the tradition of Jacques Callot's grotesques. ![]() The Devil's Elixirs is described by some literary critics as fitting into the Gothic novel genre (called Schauerroman in German). Characteristically for Hoffmann, he wrote the entire novel in only a few weeks. Hoffmann.The basic idea for the story was adopted from Matthew Gregory Lewis's novel The Monk, which is itself mentioned in the text.Īlthough Hoffmann himself was not particularly religious, he was nevertheless so strongly impressed by the life and atmosphere on a visit to a monastery of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, that he determined to write the novel in that religious setting. ![]() The Devil's Elixirs ( German: Die Elixiere des Teufels) is a 1815 novel by E. ![]()
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