The complex invisible universe of madness, starring in a chilling novel, a masterpiece of father of fantasy literature.

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), whose versatile genius led him to cultivate painting, music and literature, left a personal stamp literary work. His flamboyant and original talent unexplored paths opened in the literature, and his spirit possessed by a strange hypersensitivity allowed him to deepen with extraordinary lucidity in the most unusual and dark states of the human mind.

The Devil's Elixirs reflects the author's interest for the occult, hypnotic and telepathic phenomena. In the chilling novel -relato destination Medardo Capuchin friar appear all themes and obsessions that we find in his stories: the anguish, loss or splitting of the self, replacing personality, triggering the internal forces that lie in the depths of man, the vertigo of hallucinations. It has been said that The Devil's Elixirs constitute "a moral parable, in which Hoffmann emphasizes consciousness, uncertain and desperate struggle against the dark forces in the desecration of love and in his atonement, all elements that make the devil's elixirs a sort of Crime and Punishment of romantic literature "(Claudio Magris).