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3.1 Shoes and Mirrors: Images of Doubling The Avatar in Panamaprognosticate the way things will be, making physically and temporallydistant phenomena visible to the beholder as is the case in AndersonImbert’s novel Fuga; it may possibly illustrate the way things should orshould not be (“Suicidio”); and in its role as an instrument of thefantastic, it is able to show that which exists purely within the mirror orthe writer’s imagination – the desired or longed for (“La sombra”). 8 Theramifications for the double here are patent: the subject may witnesswhat they desire. 9Looking-Glass Literature and the Loss of LikenessLooking-glass literature is littered with the loss or lack of one’sreflection which was inspired by the fantastic genre whose literarymodel is Stoker’s Count Dracula. 10 E.T.A Hoffmann’s “A New Year’sEve Adventure”, Guy de Maupassant’s “Le horla”, and EnriqueJaramillo Levi's “Los anteojos” are all cases in point. 11 “A New Year’sEve Adventure” demonstrates the narration of two or more stories whichat first seem different but upon closer inspection prove to be the samestory told on different levels. These tiers usually correspond to daily andfantasy life which are so intermingled that the boundaries areundefined. 12 Hoffmann takes intertextuality to new heights as heincorporates Adelbert von Chamisso’s fictional character of PeterSchlemihl into his own “The Story of the Lost Reflection”, whichrecounts the woes of Erasmus Spikher who is seduced intosurrendering his reflection to his beloved in the name of newfound love.After learning his love, Guiletta, is not what she seems and thenrealising that he is unable to retrieve his mirror image, Spikher teams upwith Schlemihl who in von Chamisso’s story sells his soul to the Devil.However unlike Spikher he remains owner of his reflection. 13 Thepurpose of their partnership is to exist symbiotically in the interests of8 Grabes 39.9 Grabes 126.10 Romero Pérez also makes this point when analysing “Los anteojos”. See La miradaoblicua, 124.11 “Die Abenteuer der Silvester-Nacht“ ("A New Years Eve Adventure”), of which “TheStory of the Lost Reflection” is a part, was published in 1816 in Hoffmann’s firstcollection of short stories, Phantasiestücke in Callots Manier (Fantasy Pieces in theCallots Manner). This story also constitutes the second act of the opera Les Contesd’Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach.12 “Introduction” Best Tales of Hoffmann, xxii.13Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1814) (Peter Schlemihl: TheShadowless Man).164
3.1 Shoes and Mirrors: Images of Doubling The Avatar in Panamabeing reaccepted into their community by acting as one with bothshadow and reflection. 14Hoffmann’s character undergoes experiences shared by otherprotagonists in literature of the double. Spikher is a dislocatedprotagonist removed from his native Germany. Upon encounteringGiuletta for the first time he experiences an uncanniness which onceagain takes the form of an oppressive heaviness over the upper body:“As she came close to him, a strange force seized him and crushed hisbreast so that he couldn’t even breathe”. 15 He is immediately loath todistance himself from her. It is then the mirror is mentioned:‘If only I could remain yours forever and ever,’said Erasmus. They were standing directly infront of the beautiful wide mirror, which was setin the wall, and on the side of it tapers wereburning brightly. More firmly, more closely,Giuletta pressed Erasmus to her, while shemurmured softly in his ear, ‘Leave me yourreflection, my beloved; it will be mine andremain with me forever’.Erasmus is horrified: “How can you keep my reflection? It is partof me. It springs out to meet me from every clear body of water orpolished surface”, though not horrified enough to resist the temptation. 16After turning over his mirror image and then being caught without one,he is socially ostracised:‘’Struth. He’s not there. He doesn’t reflect.’‘What? No reflection? He’s not in the mirror?’everyone cried in confusion. ‘He’s a mauvaissujet, a homo nefas. Kick him out the door!’Raging and filled with shame, Erasmus fled tohis room, but he had hardly gotten there whenhe was informed by the police that he musteither appear with full complete, impeccablyaccurate reflection before the magistrate withinone hour or leave the town.14 “He struck upon a certain Peter Schlemihl, who had sold his shadow; they plannedto travel together, so that Erasmus Spikher could provide the necessary shadow andPeter Schlemihl could reflect properly in a mirror. But nothing came of it.” 128.15 Hoffmann, “The Lost Reflection” 117. E.T.A. Hoffmann, “A New Year’s EveAdventure” 11 Oct. 2006. .16 Hoffmann, “The Lost Reflection” 121.165
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