Elixirs of Satan

An outstanding German writer of the XIX century Ernst Theodore Amadeus Hoffman, "one of the greatest German poets, painters of the inner world", as he called him V. G. Belinsky, primarily known as the author of small fabulous leads "Nutcracker and Mouse King", "Golden Pot" , "Sandy man", "Kroashka Thahs" and many others in which he skillfully mixes wonderful all centuries and peoples with personal fiction, then gloomy-painful, then graceful and fun and mocking.
In this edition, the work of the readers is offered a much less well-known work in Russia, published from under the gofman"s feather, Satan"s "elixirs", relating to the genre of "terrible" novel. Roman agitated, struck ... But not so much fadedly confusing plot, a phantasmagoric game of circumstances and irresistible passions, as well as a series of terrible crimes, how many darkness in him in the inner world of man. Heinrich Heine wrote about the novel: "In" Satan Elixirs", the worst and most terrifying, which is only able to come up with the mind. As weak, in comparison with this "Monk" Lewis, written on the same topic. They say one student in Göttingen went crazy from this novel ". So, the protagonist of the novel, Brother Mardard, torn by the struggle of lowland instincts and high moral struggles, learns about the existence of "Elixirs of Satan"