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December: I love all the imagery this brings to mind ltThe storyception of this all really stood out to me this time, and how there are at least three worlds that are parallel, which definitely lends itself to symbolic analysis eventually.
It can be sort of choppy and confusing at points, but that only adds to the weirdness of it all, I still remain convinced that Baum was slightly inspired by this for the Oz stories this time around, in addition to seeing the fairyland as a jurisdiction of Oz as before, I pictured the Princess Pirlipat after her transformation as a Scoodler.
December: A very lovely story, I loved the settings, the characters, and the surrealiness of it allsubtle enough to not be overly creepy, but certainly enough to warrant the term.
I had never seen any adaptation of this before reading it, so I had no preconceived imagery in my head and for that reason, I don't think I would ever want to see any adaptation of it especially since it seems like that has been toned down from this version.
The emphasis on having an imaginary world that you can escape to and create vivid stories about in your spare time is lovely, A story I can definitely see myself rereading every Christmas,
This rating amp review is specifically for E, T. A. Hoffmann's original story The Nutcracker, translated by Joachim Neugroschel, See sitelinkhere for my review of Alexander Dumas's adaptation, and sitelinkhere for the review of the Penguin Classics combo edition, which contains Neugroschel's translation of both versions.
This was a perfect treat for me this morning, I read the story, but the audiobook version was a totally new experience, I loved the narrator, and the Tchaikovsky's music completed the perfect image of the book,
If you want to read this book, definitely try the audiobook version, You won't regret it! sitelinkThe Nutcracker Prince, with Keifer Sutherland as the voice of Nutcracker, was one of my favorite childhood movies, and is still a favorite to this day.
When I realized it was based on a short story that also inspired the ballet, obviously I had to read it,
I'm not a fan of Where the Wild Things Are, and I wasn't too impressed with Sendak's weird Labyrinthlike tale, sitelinkOutside Over There because there was no Jareth in it, obviously.
But I wanted to read this version because Auntie J said it was the sitelinkbest version ever,
I actually read sitelinkanother version of this tale and was less than impressed, I figured it was just a bad translation, but this version was quite similar,
The illustrations were good, but not good enough to make me swoon, The story was not quite to my taste and, in fact, a bit weird, If Marie was only seven at the beginning, how did she get betrothed at the end She would have been eight by the time they got married.
Unfortunately, I don't think I'd be a fan of this story if it weren't for the movie version I love, I'm not sure what it is about the movie that makes it so magical for me, but certainly Tchaikovsky's beautiful music used throughout doesn't hurt.
Clara takes a much more active role in the narrative than the The Nutcracker's Marie, Also, look how adorable Nutcracker is,
Yes, yes, he's supposed to be ugly, But a character voiced by Keifer Sutherland could never be ugly!
I don't think I'll be seeking out any more written versions of this story, but I am interested in the ballet and other movie versions.
Емблематичната творба Лешникотрошачката“ на Ернст Теодор Амадеус Хофман се е превърнала в неделима част от западната култура и истински символ на Коледа. Вдъхновила божествения балет на Пьотър Илич Чайковски, тази вечна приказка носи в себе си толкова много празнично вълшебство, че продължава да омагьосва читателите и днес, повече от двеста години след своето написване. Лешникотрошачката“ е основополагащ за съвременното детско фентъзи сюжет. Часовникови механизми, оживели играчки, страховити злодеи Хофмановата Мари изпреварва както принцеса Айрийн на Джордж Макдоналд, така и Алиса на Луис Карол и Дороти на Л. Франк Баум. Четем луксозното издание на Лешникотрошачката“ от изд. Коала прес“, илюстрирано от украинската художничка Марина Пузиренко. Прочетете ревюто на Книжни Криле“: sitelink wordpress. com/ This is a wonderful, magical tale which I regret not having read as a child, Read with my son. We both loved it. I enjoyed this book, but I don't believe I completely understand it, I think there is a lot of layers going on in this book, One thing that I did learn is that there is actually a RAT KING, It is a term when seven rats get their tails all tangled together, I want to study this a little bit more, When does this happen Is it a cycle of food and shortage The nutcracker is grotesque, and so the girls attachment to the doll are not clear.
I have not read a lot of books by the author and maybe this would throw more light on this book, I do plan to read it again and I did actually read it a couple of times,
I think these Rat Kings could signify nations and war, I think also that occultism may play a role in winning or creating a tangle so as to steal what has been got, . . while they get untangled.
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Or you tube video Was Jimmy Savile a Wizard sitelink youtube. com/watchvQUuCWN Is it just me or does anyone else think that sitelinkE, T. A. Hoffmann and just for the fun of it, sitelinkL, Frank Baum, were on some kind of drugs when they wrote their most popular books LOL!!
I knew absolutely nothing going into this book.
Never saw a play. Never saw a movie. Had always heard about it but never gave it much thought, That being said I must say that I was completely mesmerized! What a delightful story! So happy that I finally read the book! Now I know I'll have to watch a movie or see a play! I'll never look at my nutcracker the same way again!
Merry Christmas everyone!
A fitting kick off for the December reading.
The pace of the book is quite slow and uneven, atpages it felt quite long and didnt suck you into the story, The fairytale is a bit darker than Disney or other adaptations want you to believe, with a seven headed horror mouse who threatens to chew up a little girl, Drosselmeier as a rather ambiguous and not overly kind godfather and covert royal clockworker and real glasscuts and injuries.
In the end the moral of the story is you or at least if you are a girl or a princess should not judge people based on their apearances in that sense it is funny that the illustrations in the edition I read, from Sanna Annukka, were so beautiful that they tipped my rating from a two to a three star book.
Till now I've liked everything I've read by ETA Hoffmann and I don't understand why he isn't more known and read, seen also that he is important in literature seen that several important and more famous authors took inspiration from his works.
What I above all like is his skill to mix magic, fantasy and reality and also a bit of creepiness, Till now in all his stories I was enraptured by this mix, that at the end I wasn't able to say what was true and what was magic.
Also in this story, till the end I didn't know if Marie really lived everything or if she only dreamt about it, To be honest, I didn't worry about it because thanks to Hoffmann's skill, the dreamy kid that is in me came out, so I absolutely believed Marie's story.
I think that the important thing reading such stories, isn't that they have to be real, but realistic though weird things happen, I like it when an author has that special skill to make also weird happenings believable, Usually I don't read fantasy, but Hoffmann is one of those authors that make me enjoy also genres I never read because he makes fantasy become real.
His stories start with realism and only later he adds some magic inside,
This isn't only a story for children, also an adult may enjoy it, And I don't think it's a Christmas story though the events happen during Christmas time in my opinion some parts are maybe a little bit too dark to be read during Christmas.
Onlyand notbecause of the end: Conocía la historia de El Cascanueces por películas, pero nunca me había adentrado a leer el libro, Esta Navidad decidí ponerle remedio y leerlo y ha sido una gran sorpresa!
Una historia donde se mezcla fantasía y realidad y donde en muchos momentos no sabemos sí lo que está sucediendo es real o no.
Un cuento ideal para adultos para disfrutar en esta época del año, y cuya experiencia lectora mejora si os ponéis a Tchaikovsky mientras lo leéis.
No os quiero contar mucho, ya que es muy cortito y no os quiero desvelar nada de la trama, pero es encantador y está genialmente escrito, con unos personajes muy entrañables que os llegarán al corazón.
El Cascanueces y el Rey Ratón /Nußknacker und Mausekönig/The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
"Me dirijo a ti, benévolo lector u oyente, y te ruego que recuerdes vivamente tu última mesa de Navidad, repleta de lindos y atractivos regalos.
Entonces podrás imaginarte también a los niños,de pie, quietos, mudos, con ojos brillantes"
"muy cerca del árbol, se pudo ver un hombrecillo, pequeño y llamativo, que estaba de pie, en silencio y sin llamar la atención, como si esperara tranquilamente a que le tocara la vez.
Había mucho que objetar a su figura, pues, aparte de que su torso, demasiado grande y largo, no concordaba con sus cortas y finas piernecillas, tenía una cabeza también excesivamente grande.
Su correcta vestimenta mejoraba bastante las cosas, pues dejaba traslucir que se trataba de un hombre culto y refinado"
"Ya habréis comprendido, mis excelentes y benévolos oyentes, que el Cascanueces había percibido desde el principio, antes de que adquiriera auténtica vida, todo el amor y bondad que Marie le había mostrado"
Curiosamente parece que hay cierto desconocimiento o confusión sobre esta obra.
Pensando que la original es la de Alexandre Dumas, Si bien de la Adaptación de Dumas se desprenden, . la obra de Ballet, la composición musical e infinidad de adaptaciones: graficas,animadas,etc, y por estos medios es altamente conocida la premisa, Pero en definitiva la original es la de Hoffmann,
Una historia que ha sido de inmensa influencia, así también como su autor, Al punto de influenciar a escritores como Poe entre muchos otros,
Es una historia en la que las barreras entre lo real y la fantasía, son delgadas y efímeras
Una obra,que que a la hora de que un niño se siente a leerla, podrá disfrutar de su envoltura.
Aunque nunca hay que subestimar la mente de un niño, por el contrario,
y para los que tenemos cierto camino recorrido, podemos pretender apreciar ciertos detalles, algunos mensajes subliminales, simbolismos, al menos eso, pretender, I love my edition with its wonderful introduction and sitelinkMaurice Sendak illustrations, I love the music and the dancing that is the ballet, But there is something about this story that always creeps me out, It is not the many headed mouse king, No, its the whole ending bit, The story is about girl growing up, to a degree, except that it is rather strange because when she travel with her dream prince she dreams of a place any child would want.
Than all of a sudden she is getting married to a little man, It's kinda freaky.
The ballet does it better,
But it show has some beautiful art, I prefer barbie What a truly imaginative and festive little classic! A timeless story I had never actually read before, but was so charmed by the imagination of E.
T. A. Hoffman, as a young girl called Marie witnesses toys
coming to life at the stroke of midnight, including a Nutcracker, The Nutcracker is in battle with the Mouse King, and Marie begins to discover the history of the Nutcracker and a whole kingdom of toys beyond her wildest dreams.
Really enjoyed the classic writing style of this and the fact it is rather short makes it a lovely little story to read in one sitting, and one I could probably reread once a year in the runup to Christmas.
The edition I read has gorgeous illustrations by Sanna Annukka and they really do add something extra to the text, All in all, it's short but effective, Maurice Sendak did the illustrations for this edition, I love them. They are quirky and what you expect from Maurice,
This is the full edition and it is night something you can read in a single bedtime story, This is long. This is also all about how things look, Is someone pretty or not, Marie sees the beauty on the inside over what is on the outside,
The nutcracker ballet focuses more on the candyland part of the story and the beauty there, The book spends much of the story on war heaven help us, I mean, it is a lot about fighting and war, This is so.
I think I prefer the ballet to the book and I did enjoy this, Having a shorter version you can read in a night is nice too, Still, I'm glad I finally read this whole thing, Merry Christmas. .