Little Zaches, by the nickname Cinnabar

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