I. V. Goethe and E. T. A. Hoffman: on the Question of Creative Dialogue ("The Game" With Goethe's Allusions as a Device in the Late Work of E. T. A. Hoffmann)

This article continues a series of studies on the refraction of the allusions of the Weimar classic J. W. Goethe in the work of the romantic E. T. A. Hoffmann. It is argued that Hoffmann in his later work (the novel The Everyday Views of the Murr Cat, the short stories The Doppelgangers, Lord of the Fleas, Datura fastuosa, Master Johann Wacht, etc.) not only enters into a polemic with Goethe, but also parodies popular plots of the luminary of German literature (The Years of Wilhelm's Wanderings Meister, The Sufferings of Young Werther, The Tale of the Serpent and the Lily, Faust, etc.), quoting his works in an ironic context, as well as processing literary elements of the Goethean artistic world. Goethe's reaction to Hoffmann's attacks is manifested to a greater extent after the death of the German romantic in the form of individual statements criticizing Hoffmann's artistic method (fascination with "sick" fiction). The article concludes that the "game" with Goethe's allusions becomes a vivid artistic device in the late work of E. T. A. Hoffman.