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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Uncanny E.T.A. Hoffmann with Peter Wortsman
Description: Step into the unsettling world of E.T.A. Hoffmann with translator Peter Wortsman to explore âThe Sandmanââa tale that haunted Freud enough to spark his famous psychoanalytic analysis of âThe Uncanny,â examining familiar things that unsettle and disturb us for no clear reason. What makes this bizarre story so deeply disturbing, even today? And how does Hoffmannâs genius, in all of his writing, continue to shape the way we think about the unfamiliar, and the blurry line between human and machine? Our guest for this show is New York-born Peter Wortsman, a renowned translator of Kafka, Kleist, Musil an...