Cat Murr's Worldview

Turkish translation by M. Sami, foreword by Jeremy Adler, afterword by Francis J. Nock, chronology of the author and period, and visuals of the book.

In this work, written in the last years of his life, Hoffmann not only reveals his debt of loyalty to the mischievous literature of Rabelais and Sterne, but also sets a path to be followed by contemporary writers, from Kafka to Poe, from Bulgakov to Marquez, who have resorted to supernatural moments to explain our reality. . This double narrative of Hoffmann, who sets out to tell the life story of an ordinary cat who uses the papers on which the hypochondriac, misanthropic composer Johannes Kreisler wrote his memoirs, as drafts for his own memoirs, is so modern that readers could only catch up with his taste and satire in the 20th century. This novel, in which we sense Hoffmann's mastery and foresight on every page, is undoubtedly one of the strangest books of the century in which it was published. "The memory of the products left by a brilliant, untamed and unique mind like Hoffmann should remain in our minds forever as objects of curiosity."
-Thomas Carlyle-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 435

Year of Printing: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 435

First Print Year: 2015

Language Turkish