Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann

The "Tale of New Times" - this is exactly how the genre of one of his famous novels "Golden Pot" Talented German Writer-Romantic XIX century Ernst Theodore Amadeus Gofman. The creator of the immortal "Nutcracker", he actually composed amazing, no matter what fairy tales, in which the reality is bizarrely intertwined with fantastics and mysticism, in which the worlds are facing the world - earthly and magical. The heroes of the mythical Atlantis and fabulous Jinnystan fantasy of the artist are moving to Germany early XIX century. The royal prehistoric spirit of Fire Salamander unexpectedly appears in the image of a strange archival, the witch, the daughter of the Black Dragon Feather, in the case of an evil old woman, and the beautiful Fairy Rosabelverde and heads the shelter for noble maidens. So unusually confronts the poetic world of the artist of everyday life and a villager. At the same time, they see the real essence of the wooheth and the "other reality" only units, eccentrics-romance, like a stretchant student Anselma or poor Nathanael.
The atmosphere of mystery, mysterious reincarnations, psychologism, exciting nontrivial plots - all this and much more gives the fairy tales of the novels of Hoffmann a special expressiveness, which is distinguished by only a high classic, tested by centuries