false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176126811m/594852.jpg 594852 18 Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly different characters emerge from the confusion - Murr, the confident scholar, lover, carouser and brawler, and the moody, hypochondriac genius Kreisler. In his exuberant and bizarre novel, Hoffmann brilliantly evokes the fantastic, the ridiculous and the sublime within the humdrum bustle of daily life, making "The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr" (1820-22) one of the funniest and strangest novels of the nineteenth century. 581567 1972 The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (Penguin Classics) total:54|5:24|4:14|3:12|2:4|1:0| 54 220 135 9 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 17 18:33:50 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 07 06:55:44 -0800 2009
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Translation by Anthea Bell. (Great translator by the way.)
Described as "One of the funniest and strangest novels of the nineteenth century."
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