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‘The Wounded Storyteller’ Review: Hoffmann’s Delirious Dreams

The man who gave us ‘The Nutcracker’ conjured wondrous, freakish, troubling tales.

By Meghan Cox Gurdon
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Illustration by Natalie Frank from ‘The Wounded Storyteller.’ Photo: Natalie Frank

There’s been a lot of chatter lately about the benefits of micro-dosing psychedelic drugs, said to promote relaxation and creativity. If you’re leery of taking hallucinogens in any amount, let me suggest as an alternative that you try dipping into the deep weirdness of German Romanticism as expressed, with startling intensity, in the stories of E.T.A. Hoffmann.

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