Nutcracker and mouse king

The collection of works by the famous German prose writer Ernst theodor Amadeus Hoffmann included his most famous tales (“Golden Hill”, “Nutcracker and Mouse King”, “Troshka TsACES, nicknamed Tsinovber”) and novels (“Adventures on New Year"s Eve”, “Sanding Man”, Sandless Man , The Choice of the Bride ), which became a kind of business cards of the writer and eventually recognized the masterpieces of European romantic prose. Behind the whimsical series of strange, outlandish characters, behind the clashes of passions, for incredible vicissitudes of fate invisibly, and sometimes there is clearly present the author-the original mythologist-mystics, the singer of the “spontaneous spirits” and the creator of “combined realities”, under the pen of which Dresden of the 19th century can turn out Utopian Atlantis, and the children"s room decorated with Christmas is a marvelous country, an invisor artist, obsessed with nightmarish obsession, strange illusions, sinister substitutions and dizzying phantasmagorias, a sarcastic satirist, dawn of the social and moral flaws of his era, a crafty parodist-mocking and artistically. selflessly playing in literature and creating virtuoso reflections of life and art