NOTES FROM THE OTHER SIDE – THE MANUSCRIPT

When the young – and prematurely lost – Wilhelm Hauff – became known overnight to the entire German-speaking readership with NOTES FROM THE OTHER SIDE, the devil was a gentleman of the drawing-rooms universally respected, his opinion sought and His views are quite interesting. Hauff was not the only German-speaking writer who excelled in the field... So, OKY Publications offers you another view of the action of the forces of evil in literature, relying mainly on German-speaking authors of the past centuries and looking in their yellowed pages for nuggets of wisdom or innocence that we may lack now. The truth is that the devil and the forces of evil have always had a good relationship with German art - just think of Goethe's Faust or expressionist cinema (Nosferatu, Golem, Dr. Mabuse, etc.) - perhaps because of the obsession them to delve into the ultimate meaning of things. Hauff's work is a montage of scenes, either heartbreakingly comic or tenderly moving, from Mr. Devil's memoirs and put together in an arbitrary manner so as to give the impression of authenticity. The eupatride devil penetrates the literary salons, the universities, the trading and brokerage houses, the machinations of the papal church with the cheerful curiosity of a child and the acute observation of the enlightener. At the same time - the work was written at the time of the Greek Revolution - we also read some things about the Greek Struggle and the Philhellenes from a point of view, which will certainly pleasantly surprise today's reader. OXY publications intend to continue this WHITE SERIES with perhaps the most important work of the great German dramatist Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, who with his play Sturm und Drang gave the name to that pre-romantic movement, in which Goethe and Schiller. The Works, Days, and Fall of Faust (due for publication in early 2004) is a nonfiction work based on the medieval legend of Doctor John Faustus, written in 1792, shortly after the French Revolution and sixteen years before its final publication. Goethe's Faust I.