The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (Penguin Classics)
Anthea Bell translated E. T. A. Hoffman'sThe Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murrfor Penguin Classics and has received a number of translation awards.Anthea Bell translated E. T. A. Hoffman'sThe Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murrfor Penguin Classics and has received a number of translation awards.Jeremy Adleris Professor of German at King’s College London. He studied German at Queen Mary College (University of London) and was a Lecturer in German at Westfield College before being awarded a Personal Chair. He is a sometime fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin, and a sometime scholar of the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. He has written a book on Goethe’s novelThe Elective Affinities(1987) and (with Ulrich Ernst) has produced a catalogue of visual poetry,Text als Figur(third edition, 1990). He has published several volumes of poetry, includingThe Wedding and other Marriages(1980),The Electric Alphabet(1986; second edition, 1996, internet edition, 1997) andAt the Edge of the World(1995). Jeremy Adler is married and lives in London.