A chance encounter, a tangle of coincidences, and a lesson that everything under the sun is connected – The Mutual Interdependence of Things shows E. T. A. Hoffmann in wry, comic humour.
Published in 1820 as part of The Serapion Brethren, this light-hearted tale follows a young man whose fortunes in love and life turn on the most improbable web of accidents, told with sly wit and warmth. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 – 1822), born in Königsberg, East Prussia, was a jurist, composer, and one of the great imaginative writers of German Romanticism.
Read & Co. Books is pleased to republish this playful, lesser-known tale in a beautiful edition for readers to discover.
