Adapted into oblivion
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Below is an interesting quote (from the tabula-rasa site) on oblivion and intertextuality. Some authors, the example given is E. T. A. Hoffmann, are apparently so popular that their work does not survive with the name of the author attached to it, but rather through an osmotic process which dissolves the works in public consciousness. Another example of this process in the history of European literature may have been Eugène Sue in France.
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Hoffmann's work was so influential that it has been adapted into oblivion
- "Hoffmann is one of those artists whose works were so influential in their own day that they have been adapted into oblivion. Certainly it is fair to say that more people have read Freud's essay or the numerous commentaries on that than Der Sandmann, or seen Tchaikowsky's Nutcracker Suite than read Nussknacker und Mausekonig, or Wagner's Die Meistersingers von Nuremburg than Meister Martin Der Kupfner und Sine Gesellen. Of course, we all know the stories and generally yes, would consider them to have just that touch of something uncanny." --The Tales of Hoffmann, Germanation, 1995 by Kyla Ward
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