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Brief summary of baby Tsakhes, nicknamed. “Little Tsakhes, nicknamed Zinnober. "Little Tsakhes, nicknamed Zinnober"

Brief summary of baby Tsakhes, nicknamed. “Little Tsakhes, nicknamed Zinnober. "Little Tsakhes, nicknamed Zinnober"

In the small state where Prince Demetrius ruled, every resident was given complete freedom in his endeavors. And fairies and magicians value warmth and freedom above all else, so under Demetrius many fairies from the magical land of Dzhinnistan moved to the blessed little principality. However, after the death of Demetrius, his heir Paphnutius decided to introduce enlightenment in his fatherland. His ideas about enlightenment were the most radical: any magic should be abolished, fairies are busy with dangerous witchcraft, and the ruler’s primary concern is to grow potatoes, plant acacias, cut down forests and inoculate smallpox. Such enlightenment dried out the flourishing land in a matter of days, the fairies were sent to Dzhinnistan (they did not resist too much), and only the fairy Rosabelverde managed to stay in the principality, who persuaded Paphnutius to give her a place as a canoness in a shelter for noble maidens.

This good fairy, the mistress of flowers, once saw on a dusty road the peasant woman Lisa, asleep on the side of the road. Lisa was returning from the forest with a basket of brushwood, carrying in the same basket her freak of a son, nicknamed little Tsakhes. The dwarf has a disgusting old face, twig-like legs and spider-like arms. Taking pity on the evil freak, the fairy combed his tangled hair for a long time... and, smiling mysteriously, disappeared. As soon as Lisa woke up and set off on the road again, she met a local pastor. For some reason he was captivated by the ugly little one and, repeating that the boy was miraculously handsome, decided to take him in as an upbringer. Lisa was glad to get rid of the burden, not really understanding why her freak began to look to people.

Meanwhile, the young poet Balthazar, a melancholic student, is studying at Kerepes University, in love with the daughter of his professor Mosch Terpin, the cheerful and lovely Candida. Mosch Terpin is obsessed with the ancient Germanic spirit, as he understands it: heaviness combined with vulgarity, even more unbearable than the mystical romanticism of Balthasar. Balthasar indulges in all the romantic eccentricities so characteristic of poets: he sighs, wanders alone, avoids student revels; Candida, on the other hand, is the embodiment of life and gaiety, and she, with her youthful coquetry and healthy appetite, finds her student admirer very pleasant and amusing.

Meanwhile, a new face invades the touching university reserve, where typical boors, typical educators, typical romantics and typical patriots personify the diseases of the German spirit: little Zaches, endowed with a magical gift of attracting people to himself. Having wormed his way into Mosch Terpin's house, he completely charms both him and Candida. Now his name is Zinnober. As soon as someone reads poetry or expresses himself wittily in his presence, everyone present is convinced that this is Zinnober’s merit; If he meows disgustingly or stumbles, one of the other guests will certainly be guilty. Everyone admires Zinnober's grace and dexterity, and only two students - Balthasar and his friend Fabian - see all the ugliness and malice of the dwarf. Meanwhile, he manages to take the place of a freight forwarder in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and there Privy Councilor on special matters - and all this was a deception, for Zinnober managed to appropriate to himself the merits of the most worthy.

It so happened that in his crystal carriage with a pheasant on the goats and a golden beetle on the heels, Kerpes was visited by Dr. Prosper Alpanus, a magician traveling incognito. Balthasar immediately recognized him as a magician, but Fabian, spoiled by enlightenment, at first doubted; however, Alpanus proved his power by showing Zinnober's friends magic mirror. It turned out that the dwarf is not a wizard or a gnome, but an ordinary freak who is helped by a certain secret power. Alpanus discovered this secret power without difficulty, and the fairy Rosabelverde hastened to pay him a visit. The magician informed the fairy that he had drawn up a horoscope for the dwarf and that Tsakhes-Zinnober could soon destroy not only Balthazar and Candida, but also the entire principality, where he had become his man at court. The fairy is forced to agree and deny Tsakhes her protection - especially since the magic comb with which she combed his curls was cunningly broken by Alpanus.

The fact of the matter is that after these combings, three fiery hairs appeared in the dwarf’s head. They endowed him with witchcraft power: all other people's merits were attributed to him, all his vices were attributed to others, and only a few saw the truth. The hairs had to be pulled out and immediately burned - and Balthasar and his friends managed to do this when Mosch Terpin was already arranging Zinnober’s engagement to Candida. Thunder struck; everyone saw the dwarf as he was. They played with him like a ball, he was kicked, he was thrown out of the house - in wild anger and horror he fled to his luxurious palace, which the prince gave him, but the confusion among the people grew unstoppably. Everyone heard about the transformation of the minister. The unfortunate dwarf died, stuck in a jug, where he tried to hide, and as a final benefit, the fairy returned him the appearance of a handsome man after death. She also did not forget the unfortunate man’s mother, the old peasant woman Lisa: such wonderful and sweet onions grew in Lisa’s garden that she was made the personal supplier of the enlightened court.

And Balthasar and Candida lived happily, as a poet and a beauty should live, who were blessed by the magician Prosper Alpanus at the very beginning of their lives.

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(Story, 1819) Prince Demetrius ruled in one small state. In this state, every resident was given complete freedom in his endeavors. Fairies and magicians value freedom above all else, so under Demetrius many fairies from the magical land of Dzhinnistan moved to the small principality. But after the death of Demetrius, his heir Paphnutius decided to introduce enlightenment in his fatherland, which seemed to him to mean that all magic should be abolished. Pursuing his goal, he sent all the fairies to Dzhinnistan, and only the fairy Rosabelverde managed to stay in the principality, who persuaded Paf-nutius to give her a place as a canoness in a shelter for noble maidens. The result of the expulsion of the fairies was the drying up of the gardens of this fertile land. And then one day the fairy Rosabelverda, the mistress of flowers, saw the peasant woman Lisa asleep on the side of the road. Lisa was returning from the forest with a basket of brushwood, carrying in the same basket her freak of a son, nicknamed little Tsakhes. This dwarf had a disgusting old face, twig-like legs and spider-like arms. Taking pity on the evil freak, the fairy combed his tangled hair for a long time and, smiling mysteriously, disappeared. As soon as Lisa woke up and set off on the road again, she met a local pastor. For some reason, he really liked the little freak, and, repeating that the boy was a miracle good-looking, he decided to take him in. Lisa was glad to get rid of the burden, although she did not understand why people could like her ugly man. At the same time, the young poet Balthasar, in love with the daughter of his professor Mosch Terpin, Mosch Terpin, is studying. was possessed by the ancient Germanic spirit, as he understands it: heaviness combined with vulgarity, even more unbearable than the mystical romanticism of Balthasar. Meanwhile, a new face invades the touching university reserve: little Tsakhes, endowed with the magical gift of attracting people to himself. then once, having got into the house of Mosch Terpin, he completely charms both him and Candida. Now his name is Zinnober. As soon as someone reads poetry in his presence or expresses himself wittily, everyone immediately thinks that this is Zinnober’s merit. As soon as he meowed disgustingly or stumbled, one of the other guests turned out to be guilty. Everyone admires Zinnober's grace and dexterity, and only two students - Balthasar and his friend Fabian - see all the ugliness and malice of the dwarf. Meanwhile, he manages to take the place of a freight forwarder in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then a Privy Councilor for Special Affairs, and all this is by deception, for Zinnober managed to appropriate to himself the merits of the most worthy. One day the city was visited by Doctor Prosper Alpanus, a magician traveling incognito. Balthasar immediately recognized him as a magician, but Phibian, spoiled by enlightenment, at first doubted. However, Alpanus proved his power by showing Zinnober to his friends in a magic mirror. It turned out that the dwarf is not a wizard or a gnome, but an ordinary freak who is helped by some secret force. Alpanus discovered this secret power without difficulty, and the fairy Rosabelverde hastened to pay him a visit. The magician informed the fairy that he had drawn up a horoscope for the dwarf, and that Tsakhes-Zinnober could soon destroy not only Balthasar and Candida, but also the entire principality, where he had become his man at court. The fairy is forced to agree and refuse Tsakhes her protection, especially since Alpanus deliberately broke the magic comb with which she combed his curls. However, after these combings, three fiery hairs appeared in the dwarf’s head. They endowed him with witchcraft power: all other people's merits were attributed to him, all his vices to others, and only a few saw the truth. The hairs had to be pulled out and immediately burned, and Balthasar and his friends managed to do this when Mosch Terpin was already arranging Zinnober’s engagement to Candida. Thunder struck, and everyone saw the dwarf as he really was. He was played with like a ball, he was kicked, he was thrown out of the house. In wild anger and horror, he fled to his palace, which the prince had given him, but the confusion among the people grew. Everyone heard about the transformation of the minister. The unfortunate dwarf died, stuck in a jug, where he tried to hide, and as a final benefit, the fairy returned him the appearance of a handsome man after death. She also did not forget the unfortunate man’s mother, the old peasant woman Lisa. Such wonderful and sweet onions grew in Lisa’s garden that she was made the personal supplier of the enlightened court.

Prince Demetrius ruled in a small state, each resident of which was given complete freedom in any of his endeavors. And magicians and fairies value freedom and warmth above all else, so under Demetrius, a large number of fairies from their magical country of Djinnistan moved to the small blessed principality. But after the death of Demetrius, his heir Panfutius decided to introduce enlightenment in his principality. One of the most radical were his ideas about enlightenment: all magic must be abolished, fairies are engaged in dangerous witchcraft, and the priority during his reign was the cultivation of potatoes, the inoculation of smallpox, deforestation and planting of acacias. This enlightenment very quickly dried out the flourishing land, and all the fairies were sent back to Dzhinnistan, although they did not mind much; in the entire principality there was only one fairy, Rosabelverda, who managed to persuade Paphnutius to leave a place for her in the shelter of noble maidens.

She was the mistress of flowers and generally a very kind fairy; one day she noticed on a dusty road the peasant woman Lisa, who was sleeping on the side of the road. Lisa walked out of the forest with a basket of brushwood and in the same basket she carried her son, the freak Tsakhes. The dwarf had the muzzle of an old man, legs like twigs and arms like a spider. The fairy took pity on the evil freak, and began to comb his tangled hair, while smiling very mysteriously, and then disappeared. As soon as the woman woke up and set off on the road again, she met a pastor along the way. He was very captivated by her freak, and, repeating that the boy was very cute, he decided to take him in for upbringing. Lisa was glad to get rid of the burden and did not understand at all why people liked her baby.
At this time, the poet Balthazar was studying at Kerepes University; he was a very melancholic student in love with the beautiful Candida, the daughter of Professor Mosch Terpin. Mosch Terpin was simply possessed by the ancient German spirit, in his understanding: heaviness coupled with vulgarity, he was even more unbearable than the mystical romanticism of Balthasar himself. Balthasar fell into all the eccentricities of romanticism, which were very characteristic of many poets: he wandered alone and sighed and avoided various student revels. Candida, on the contrary, was the embodiment of gaiety and life, and with her healthy appetite and youthful coquetry, she was a very funny and pleasant student admirer.

In a very touching university reserve there were typical educators and typical burshis and typical patriots and typical romantics, all of them were the personification of the disease of the German spirit, and a new face suddenly invaded there: little Tsakhes had amazing gift attract people to you. When he came to Mosch Terpin's house, he charmed Candida herself. Now his name was Zinnober. As soon as someone read poetry or expressed wit in his presence, everyone who was present was convinced that this was the merit of Zinnober. All he had to do was stumble or meow, and someone else was sure to be to blame for what was happening. Everyone was delighted with Zinnober's dexterity and grace, and only two students, Fabian and his friend Balthasar, see both the dwarf's anger and his ugliness. But meanwhile he has to take the place of a freight forwarder in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the position of Privy Councilor for Special Affairs, and he achieved all this with the help of deception, because Zinnober always managed to take credit for the merits of the most worthy.

It happened that in his crystal carriage on a box with a pheasant, as well as on the heels with a golden beetle, Dr. Prosper Alpanaus visited Kerpes, he was a traveling incognito magician. Balthazar instantly recognized him as a magician, but Fabian was spoiled by his enlightenment, and at first began to doubt. But Alpanus was able to quickly prove his power to his friends when they saw Zinnober in the magic mirror. As it turned out, the dwarf was not a gnome, not a wizard, but just an ordinary freak, who was helped by an inexplicable secret power. The magician was able to easily unravel the secret of his secret power, which is why the fairy Rosabelverde decided to quickly pay him a visit. The magician said that he had compiled a horoscope for the dwarf and in the near future this Tsakhes - Zinnober would soon be able to destroy not only Candida and Balthasar, but in general the entire principality, where he had long been his man at court. The fairy was forced to agree and refuse Tsakhes’s protection, especially since Alpanus cunningly broke the magic comb with which she had once combed his hair. After this combing, three fiery hairs appeared in the dwarf's head.

It was they who endowed him with the witchcraft power that he began to possess. They not only endowed him with witchcraft powers, but could also attribute to him the merits of others and at the same time all the vices inherent in him were attributed to other people. Few people could see the truth. The hairs had to be pulled out and burned immediately. And then a boom thundered and then all the people could see what the dwarf really was. They started playing with it instead of a ball, kicking it, and then simply threw it out of the house. Being very angry, he fled to his luxurious palace, given to him by the prince, but confusion among the people grew every day. Everyone around learned about the transformation of the minister. The unfortunate ugly dwarf died because he got stuck in a jug, where he simply wanted to hide from everyone, and the fairy returned the dwarf after death to the appearance of a seductive handsome man. The mother of the unfortunate old peasant woman Lisa, the fairy, also could not forget; very sweet and wonderful onions began to grow in Lisa’s garden, so she became a personal supplier to the enlightened court.
And Candida and Balthazar also lived happily ever after.

Summary the story “Little Tsakhes, nicknamed Zinnober” was retold by A. S. Osipova.

Please note that this is only a summary literary work"Little Tsakhes, nicknamed Zinnober." This summary omits many important points and quotes.

Hoffman, like no one else, demonstrates with his work the versatility of the possibilities of romanticism. And he, like Kleist, revises the basic ideas of romanticism and rises above them, opening up new horizons. Hoffmann’s famous fairy tale “Little Tsakhes,” which I really liked, confirms this to an even greater extent. This time the action does not take place in everything known German city, and in a certain kingdom, a certain state, called by Hoffmann Kerepes. The world depicted in this tale is also dominated by different forces, but everything is not so simple here. Good forces are personified in the images of the fairy Rosabelverde and Doctor Prosper Alpanus, partly competing, partly supporting each other. She is the embodiment of a good heart, he is the embodiment of a good mind.

There are no evil wizards at all, because the evil here is not magical, but the most earthly: philistine narrow-mindedness, dull rationality, police-bureaucratic zeal, fetishization of gold. However, if wizards make mistakes, they can aggravate evil, but people can be kind and beautiful without any wizards. So the opposition of good and evil alone is not enough to understand the contradictions depicted in this tale. Hoffmann's irony, by its romantic nature, does not allow unambiguous judgments at all. As soon as the assumption arises that the answer to the question has been found, another answer arises, followed by a third, etc.

You can see that the relationship between the forces of good and evil in this fairy tale is somewhat different than in the fairy tale “The Golden Pot”. There, the prince of the spirits of the Salamanders openly demonstrated superiority over the evil witch. Here, the stupid and soulless prince Paphnutius temporarily gains the upper hand over the good wizards, and the fairy Rosabelverda has to hide under a different name and secretly carry out her affairs, which, moreover, being good in plan, turn out to be outright evil, so that their consequences then have to be corrected Prosper Alpanus. In the kingdom of Paphnutius, the pseudoscientist Moshe Terpin flourishes, who “enclosed all of nature in a small elegant compendium, so that he could always use it and extract an answer to every question, as if from a drawer”; he examined birds and animals in boiled form, and the liquid in a wine cellar. In this dwarf state, insignificant lackeys and officials who imagine themselves to be dignitaries prosper, and the poor starve.

Little Tsakhes is a pathetic freak, born to a poor peasant woman already offended by her fate. Fairy Rosabelverde took pity on the unfortunate woman and decided to help her boy by sticking three golden hairs into his crown. They were the cause of many disasters, which, however, would not have happened if the soil had not been prepared for this in the state of Paphnutius.

A pathetic two-year-old freak with senile features, unable to walk or speak, resembling a forked radish, “real alraun” (alraun is the root of the mandrake plant, its shape resembling a man; many legends and beliefs are associated with it, and the Compendium is an abbreviated summary foundations of any science), suddenly began to attract universal, ever-increasing admiring attention. The priest, touched by this, as it seemed to him, lovely child, adopts him. When Tsakhes becomes a student, everyone seems stately, handsome, and talented, although neither his appearance nor his mind have improved.

During a tea party with Professor Moshe Terpin, the piercing meow of Tsakhes (he is now called Mr. Zinnober) is attributed to the poet Balthasar, who is in love with the professor’s daughter Candida, but Balthasar’s poems about the nightingale’s love for a scarlet rose, dedicated to Candida, are attributed to Little Tsakhes and unanimously praise him. He is also applauded for the virtuoso playing of the famous violinist Vincenzo Schiocca. They give him excellent marks for Pulcher's answers during the competitive tests for a position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Pulcher is informed that he failed. Tsakhes is appointed to a high position and awarded a ribbon for a report prepared by a ministry official, Adrian.

In a word, whoever does anything talented or simply successful, the freak Tsakhes is thanked and rewarded for it all, and everything base that comes from Tsakhes is attributed to other, innocent people. Moreover, Tsakhes does not show any initiative - he himself is not capable of anything like this, his strength is borrowed, or rather, even - he is just a sign, a symbol of some anonymous force: everything happens apart from his personal efforts. Before us is an allegorical image of the so-called alienation, characteristic of bourgeois society, where labor is the subject of purchase and sale. This is a social satire on a society in which all ideas about values are displaced. A person who is incapable of anything good, a completely insignificant person, who appropriates for himself the fruits of the labor and talent of others, is shown respect and admiration by everyone. He is credited with various virtues that he never had in his life, but no one notices his vices, no matter how monstrous they may be. And all this is done by money, gold, in the fairy tale the same three golden hairs with which the fairy, out of compassion, awarded the freak Tsakhes.

This did not happen in the short story “The Golden Pot”: there the prince of spirits did good deeds, and the witch did evil. Here the good fairy, taking pity on the poor peasant woman, gave birth to consequences with her action that she could neither foresee nor stop. Hoffmann, in fact, like Kleist, depicted the element, but not the element of growing passion, but the element of increasing blindness of people who began to mistake white for black, and black for white, i.e., the increasing loss of correct values. A dark, destructive chaos ensues, the roots of which are in a golden mirage, which, according to Hoffman’s thoughts, spreads with the expulsion of poetry and the imposition of police-bureaucratic order, deadening all living things.

For a moment, Little Tsakhes influences even the poet Balthazar, which would hardly have been possible with any other romantic. It is also unconventional for romanticism that Balthasar’s sober-minded friend Fabian resists this evil influence longer than others. True, then he just as stubbornly does not want to believe in the power of good miracles, for which the wizard Prosper Alpanus punishes him in the same magical way: no matter what Fabian puts on himself, this clothing immediately shrinks and shortens, and he falls into a strange dependence on the most simple things that should simply serve him. But things are not always subject to man’s control—in a fairy tale, they can rebel and even control him. In each of the young people, whose work or art is inexplicably appropriated by Tsakhes, the initial blindness is replaced by insight. The spread of general madness is gradually beginning to be countered by the development of a reverse process. The number of enemies of Mr. Zinnober, who fits so well into the system introduced by Paphnutius, is growing that this already threatens the system itself. It is noteworthy that among the enemies of Tsakhes are not only people of art - the poet Balthasar and the violinist Vincent Schiocca - but also the officials Pulcher and Adrian, who seem to be “not musicians”. They grab the little monster, Balthazar pulls out three golden hairs from its crown, throws them into the fire - and the obsession immediately disappears.

Everyone now sees Little Tsakhes in his real appearance, “the rumor spread among the people that this is a hilarious monster... - and indeed Little Tsakhes, ... exalted by all sorts of dishonest deception and lies.” A real uprising breaks out. “Down with this little beast! Down with! Beat him out of his ministerial jacket! Put him in a cage! Show it for money at fairs!.. Up!” “And the people began to break into the house... The doors were broken down, and the people stomped up the stairs with wild laughter.” Fleeing from the indignant crowd, the unfortunate freak ingloriously drowns in a chamber pot, and in the country of Kerepes, the most beautiful miracles, very similar to theatrical ones, are staged - this time in honor of the wedding of Candida and Balthazar. They are arranged by Prosper Alpanus, who, as the bride’s father assured, “was none other than a clever fellow - an opera decorator and fireworksman of the prince.”

Brief retelling Hoffmann's fairy tales "Little Tsakhes"

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The ruler of a small principality, Demetrius, allows his subjects to do whatever they want, as long as it does not cause inconvenience to others. Since all magical creatures value freedom the most, they long ago moved to a small principality. However, the death of Demetrius ends the era of freedom - the new ruler decided to introduce new orders in the state. Accordingly, to his views, he orders to eliminate magic by any means and do more useful things - for example, cutting down forests and planting potatoes. After the introduction of the new order, all fairies were sent to their magical land and only one managed to persuade the ruler to allow her to stay in the principality - the flower fairy Rosabelverde.

One day this fairy meets the peasant woman Lisa in the forest, who has fallen asleep from fatigue. Her son, an ugly dwarf with spider-like limbs, sleeps in a basket next to her. The fairy takes pity on the freak and spends a long time combing his hair with her magic comb. Waking up, Lisa took the baby and moved on. Near the village she was met by a pastor who was so captivated by the boy’s beauty that he asked to take him to his upbringing. The peasant woman happily gave up the freak.

At this time, at the university of Kerpess, a melancholic poet named Balthazar is gnawing on the granite of science. He is madly in love with his teacher’s lovely daughter, Candida. The girl is flattered by the attention of the young romantic, and she flirtatiously accepts his advances. However, in the already established university order there appears new person- little Tsakhes, who now bears the name Zinnober. In a strange way, people of all types are drawn to him. Appearing in the professor's house, he charms both the owner and his daughter. Now he is invited to all the dinner parties, where he gains considerable popularity. As soon as someone expresses a witty thought, or reads poetry of his own performance, everyone believes that this is the merit of Zinnober. But if he meows disgustingly or stumbles, the culprit will be one of those present. Only two people - Balthazar and his friend Fabian - see Tsakhes's real face. Using his strange talent, the dwarf gets a position in the ministry and also becomes engaged to the professor's daughter.

One day, Doctor Prosper Alpanus, who is also a magician, arrives in Kerpes on a crystal carriage. Only Balthazar immediately sees his true face. With the help of a magician, he learns that Zinnober is an ordinary freak who is helped by a certain Magic power. Soon Alpanus manages to calculate this power, and he meets the fairy Rosabelverde. The magician informs her that, according to the horoscope, her ward can destroy the entire principality. He also steals and breaks her magic comb by cunning. The fairy agrees to leave the dwarf without protection. She confesses that with the help of her combing, three fiery hairs appeared on Tsakhes’s head, thanks to which all the merits of other people were attributed to him, and the dwarf’s vices to others. These three hairs had to be destroyed, which is what Balthazar did. As soon as everyone found out the truth, he was kicked out of the house, and, hiding from people, he drowned himself in a jug. However, taking pity on him, after his death the fairy returned him to his beautiful appearance. Balthazar married Candida.

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