The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr is a book by E. T. A. Hoffmann. It tells the story of Tomcat Murr, a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer’s error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly different characters emerge from the confusion – Murr, the confident scholar, lover, carouser and brawler, and the moody, hypochondriac genius Kreisler.
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
