in a passage which compares the task of a narrator with that of a painter.
The narrator of this story considers beginning it with the protagonist shouting "Go to the devil!" in a passage which compares the task of a narrator with that of a painter. The fact that one character sneezes more often than she yawns arouses the suspicion of a habitué of tea parties. Siegmund is unable to understand the protagonist's obsession with that character, who is the supposed daughter of the physics professor Spalanzani. The protagonist associates the titular figure with the man who may have caused his father's death, Coppelius. Famously interpreted by Freud in his essay "The Uncanny," for 10 points, name this short story about Nathanael's obsession with an automaton named Olimpia, written by E.T.A. Hoffmann.
The narrator of this story considers beginning it with the protagonist shouting "Go to the devil!"
“The {Sandman}” [or “{Der Sandmann}”]