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Ok, amazon order of "The Physician" is ready. :)

If you enjoyed "The Witcher", you'll probably enjoy Hoffman's "The devil elixir", a classical representative of german XIX century romanticism, "the dark romanticism", a proto mythological-psychological/psychodelic novel written in the soliloqium form (meaning the protagonist is speaking for himself as "I" inner monologue). Not only that the folk in general are unaware that this novel was a first representative of romanticism even before Hugo in France, but it is a predecessor of "a modern novel", quite intriguing for the time of it's publishment! It later led to the development of "a dark fantasy genre", meaning our age, with the novels such as "The Mists of Avalon", and "The Witcher". Influenced of course by Faust, sure you have read one version of it by Goethe.

But before our age, XX century, Edgar Alan Poe, "The black cat" short story, "The raven" short story, his poems, and his novel "William Wilson". This is not a spoiler, but the laitmotiff in these is "the double in the man's soul", somewhat like Geralt's "ambiguious morality".

Have You read Narrenturm? :)