Klein Zaches called Zinnober

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) - one of the most vivid and significant representatives of Romanticism in German literature. An extraordinarily gifted person - musician, composer, music critic, music teacher, conductor, artist, theatrical decorator, Hoffmann, with his multifaceted creative personality, embodied the ideal of romantics - universalism in art. "Little Zaches, called Zinnober" (1818) - the story of an ugly dwarf, who is endowed by a good fairy with the ability to appear beautiful, using this to appropriate others' knowledge, successes, merits, and even love. This fairy tale is a sharp satire on Hoffmann's contemporary society of the despotic dwarfish German principality, its bureaucracy that creates idols for itself, blindly worships and obeys them, and even experiences an overwhelming fear of them, contrary to common sense. In the book offered to the readers...