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"The Sandman" (German: Der Sandmann, 1816) is a short story written in German by E. T. A. Hoffmann. It was the first in an 1817 book of stories titled Die Nachtstücke (The Night Pieces). The story is told by a narrator who claims to have known Lothar. It begins by quoting three letters...

El misterioso cuento "El hombre de arena" de E.T.A. Hoffmann nos sumerge en la vida de Nathanael, un joven atormentado por oscuros recuerdos de su infancia y la figura enigmática del hombre de arena, asociada con desapariciones y tragedias. A medida que la historia se desenvuelve, las fronteras entre la realidad y el delirio se vuelven borrosas. Hoffmann construye un relato psicológico perturbador, donde el amor, la obsesión y el horror se entrelazan, desafiando la percepción del lector y dejándolo en un estado de inquietud y reflexión.

Barbara Gowdy's outrageous, hilarious, disturbing, and compassionate novel is about the Canary family, their immoderate passions and eccentricities, and their secret lives and histories. The deepest secret of all is harbored in the silence of the youngest daughter, Joan, who doesn't grow, who doesn't speak, but who can play the piano like Mozart though she's never had a lesson.