ETA Hoffmann’s fairy tales are mentioned in The Children’s Book. Since I didn’t rate The Children’s Book highly it seems a little odd to take up the references… but I did.

THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF THE TOMCAT MURR together with a fragmentary Biography of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler on Random Sheets of Waste Paper isn’t a fairy-tale, but it is magic realism, it is gothic and it is satirical. It also features pronounced post-modern antecedents and intertextuality in spades. And you could get nearly all of that from the title alone. Why read the book?
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