In the “tale from new times” and the tale, we see a direct reference to the principle of romantic double peace, which is formed in Hoffmann by means of recreation, interpenetration and juxtaposition of two worlds – the real and the fantastic.

All these genre designations are true, as they reflect certain features of the work: a chronicle plot (a story line), emphasis on a magical story (fairy tale), and a relatively small volume (short story). Hoffman himself gave his work a characteristic subtitle defining its genre – “a tale from new times.” In various research works, the “Golden Pot” was called a story, a fairy tale, a literary tale, a short story. Fierce battles and cannonballs flying into the city, tearing people’s eyes in front of the author’s eyes, naturally pushed the writer out of the world of everyday life into an incredibly vivid fantasy of the wonderful country of Atlantis – an ideal world in which “the sacred harmony of all things reigns”. Hoffmann – the fairy tale story “The Golden Pot” was created under the thunder of shells in the besieged Napoleon Dresden in 1814.

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