Eyes, puppets and doppelgรคnger: the "uncanny" in "Der Sandmann" by ETA Hoffmann (I)

Two centuries after its publication, ETA Hoffmann's "Man of the Sand" is still today one of the literary works indispensable for understanding the poetics of the "uncanny", destined to influence the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Jentsch, the works of Hesse and Machen, the films of Lynch and Polanski.