E.T.A.
Hoffmann.
Das Leben eines skeptischen Phantasten (lit. 'E.
T. A. Hoffmann: The Life of a Sceptical Fantasist') is a biography about E. T. A. Hoffmann, written by the German philosopher Rüdiger Safranski and published in 1984 by Carl Hanser Verlag.
[1][2][3] It was Safranski's first biography, a genre he would come to specialise in.