Marc Slonim proporciona una admiorable introducción pqara los que se inician por los caminos de la novela, el cuento, el teato y la poesÃa rusos y un recordatorio vivificante para los viejos entusiastas de la gran riqueza de esta literatura y de sus más altos representantes.
Animal magnetism is when one person, by use of suggestion andhypnotism, controls the will of another. It is also known as mesmerism.Can life and death be controlled by hypnosis? The evil magnetiser in this disturbing storyby Hoffmann seems ready to prove that it is possible.
