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Selma Lagerlöf, art. Carl Larsson
Selma Ottilia Luvis Lagerlöf
(Swedish Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf; November 20, 1858, Morbakka, Sweden - March 16, 1940, ibid.) - Swedish writer, the first woman to receive Nobel Prize in Literature
(1909) and the third in general to receive the Nobel Prize (after Marie Curie and Bertha Suttner).
Puzyrenko Marina
The central work of Selma Lagerlöf is a fairy tale book "Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden"
(Swedish Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige) (1906-1907) was originally conceived as educational
. Written in the spirit of democratic pedagogy, it was supposed to tell children about Sweden, its geography and history, legends and cultural traditions in a fun way.
The book is based on folk tales and legends.
Geographical and historical materials are held together here by a fabulous plot. Together with a flock of geese, led by the wise old Akka Kebnekaise, Martin Niels travels all over Sweden on the back of a goose. But this is not just a journey, it is also the education of a person. Thanks to the meetings and events during the trip, kindness awakens in Nils Holgersson, he begins to worry about other people's misfortunes, rejoice in the joys of another, experience someone else's fate as his own.
E. Almazova, V. Shvarov.
The boy develops the ability to empathize, without which a person is not a person. Protecting and rescuing his fabulous fellow travelers, Niels fell in love with people, understood the grief of his parents, the suffering of the orphans Oosa and Mats, the difficult life of the poor. Niels returns from his journey as a real person.
The book received recognition not only in Sweden, but throughout the world. In 1907 Lagerlöf was elected an honorary doctor of Uppsala University, and in 1914 she became a member of the Swedish Academy.
In 1909, the writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to the high idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual penetration that distinguish all her works."
Tatiana Laponkina
I have a publication with illustrations by O. Vasiliev, E. Bulatov
In Russia first translation of the book
was completed by Lyubov Khavkina and appeared in 1908 (the first volume, the second - in 1909). The translation was probably made from German. The book was not successful and was soon forgotten. In 1910, the translation of the fairy tale by A. Kairansky and M. Barsukova was included in the complete collection of Lagerlöf's works. In 1911 another, anonymous translation appeared. It is generally accepted that they were also made from the German language.
The book became popular only in 1940, when Soviet writers Z. M. Zadunaiskaya and A. I. Lyubarskaya
They wrote a free adaptation for children, and it was in this form that the book became popular with Soviet readers. The adaptation differed from the original in a greatly reduced storyline and the simplification of some historical and biological details. In fact, it was not a textbook of Swedish geography in the form of a fairy tale, but just a fairy tale.
A full translation of the book from Swedish was made only in 1975 by a translator Lyudmila Braude.
I had to get acquainted with the little shorty Nils Holgersson and his goose squadron three times. I mean, get to know each other again. The first acquaintance, of course, was the wonderful Soviet cartoon of 1955 "The Enchanted Boy".
The next in line was the translation of the tale, or rather, not a translation, but a free retelling made by Z. Zadunaiskaya and A. Lyubarskaya. I learned about how free he was, already as an adult, when the full version of the book, translated by L. Braude, finally fell into my hands. The question immediately arose: how many of us will find children who can master this version, where at every step you have to wade through detailed descriptions of the Swedish provinces, local realities and natural sketches? Why is the favorite fairy tale of Swedish children so heavy for our children? The reasons for this are directly related to the history of the creation of the book ...
The teacher becomes a writer
The dream of becoming a writer haunted the Swedish girl Selma Ottilie Luvisa Lagerlöf (b. 11/20/1858) from the age of seven. The development of her violent imagination was facilitated by circumstances that were not of the most pleasant nature. From the age of 3, Selma was paralyzed, and, bedridden, the girl could listen to tales told by her beloved grandmother for hours.
And then in the life of Selma there was an event that is quite comparable to a fairy tale. At the age of nine, she was sent for treatment to Stockholm. And the capital's doctors manage to do the impossible - the girl began to walk again, although she limped until the end of her life.
Writing, as you know, is an unreliable business, so Selma graduated from a teacher training school and began working at a girls' school in Landskrona. In 1885, grief overtook her again - and not one, but two. The father, dearly beloved, died, and the family estate of the Lagerlöf family - Morbakka - was immediately sold for debts.
Oddly enough, it was a childhood dream that helped the teacher improve her financial well-being. In 1891, she participated in a literary competition and wrote the novel "Jöste Berlig's Saga". The romantic work sounded so fresh against the backdrop of the dominance of the realistic style that the Saga quickly won the love of readers and enthusiastic praise from critics. Five years later, Selma felt wealthy enough to quit teaching and devote herself completely to creativity. However, she also had doubts.
Selma Lagerlöf:
“I moved too fast. I don’t know if I can keep my place in literature, let alone go further.”
However, the real triumph of the writer was yet to come...
The textbook becomes a fairy tale
“... all of a sudden, the boy clearly imagined his school. …is he,
Nils, stands at the geographical map and must answer
to some questions about Bleking. Time passes, but he is silent.
The teacher's face darkens. For some reason he would like to
the students knew geography better than all other subjects.”
(S. Lagerlöf “The Amazing Journey of Niels…”)
At the beginning of the 20th century, Alfred Dalin, the head of the General Union of Folk School Teachers, initiated a bold pedagogical experiment. He thought: what if we create school textbooks not in the usual dry style, but similar to fascinating literary works?
According to the plan, each textbook was to be written by two people: the writer himself and an expert in the subject. It is not surprising that among the first applicants who could realize this difficult idea was Selma Lagerlöf. She was both a teacher and a writer in one bottle, so she immediately refused co-authors.
Selma Lagerlöf:
“If I take on some work, I should feel the full measure of responsibility for it.
... Mentally, I asked myself the question: what should a child know first of all, what should he have a fresh, lively idea of? And the answer, of course, suggested itself: the first thing kids should learn is their own country.
In a word, the writer took up a textbook on Swedish geography. However, she did not refuse outside help. The same Alfred Dalin sent questionnaires to various parts of Sweden in order to obtain interesting local material on ethnography and folklore. Work on the book began in 1904, and at first it was difficult to move forward.
From Lagerlöf's letters to Dalin:
“Until now, the work on the textbook has convinced me, perhaps, only of how little we know about our country; though perhaps I should have said how little I know about her. I read what I have to in geology, zoology, botany, history! All sciences have taken such unthinkable steps forward since I graduated from high school!
... I will think about the form of the book, which would most effectively help to put the wisdom about our country into these small heads. Perhaps the old legends will help us…”
Material accumulated, but Selma did not want the book to appear in the form of scattered fragments. She needed a connecting storyline, on which, like a thread, geographical information and local legends could be strung. In search of inspiration, the writer personally travels around Sweden - visits the provinces of Småland, Bloking, Norrland, and even descends into the mine of the Falunsky mine.
On her tour, she could not pass by the beautiful province of Wörmland, where her native and lost Morbakka was located.
Selma Lagerlöf:
“There is something extraordinary in the air of Morbakki. Energy is born here, but it disappears as soon as you go out into the big world. And in Morbakk she lies like a fallow field.
According to the writer herself, it was during a visit to Morbakki that she was overtaken by insight. Suddenly, it seemed to her that she saw a tiny boy who was trying to grab an owl. Later, this "story" will go straight into a fairy tale along with Lagerlöf herself.
Rice. - V. Kupriyanov.
“At first, the woman, in amazement, could not move. But the little one kept screaming more and more plaintively; then she hurried to intervene and separated the combatants. The owl flew up a tree, and the baby remained on the path, not even trying to hide or run away.
... - Show you where to spend the night? Are you not from here?
“Yeah, you thought I was from the little people,” said the short man. “But I am the same person as you, even though the brownie has bewitched me!”
The second starting point of the plot was a real memory of an amazing incident that happened in Morbakk of her childhood. One day, a white domestic goose escaped from the Lagerlöf estate along with a flock of wild geese, and after a while returned ... with a goose and a brood of goslings!
Frame from the film "The Enchanted Boy" (1955).
And, finally, the last - decisive - influence on the plot of the fairy tale was Kipling's works with his talking animals.
From a letter from Lagerlöf to Dalin:
“Among all my searches and attempts to make descriptions of hills and swamps, coasts and mountains attractive to nine-year-old children, the animalistic books of the English writer Kipling came to my mind. ... it was his example that tempted me to try, by placing animals in some kind of landscape, to revive it.
Thus was born the long-awaited central plot thread. A boy, turned into a midget by a brownie, makes a dizzying journey with a wild goose flock across Sweden on the back of the domestic goose Morten. He observes different provinces, cities, villages, factories, gets acquainted with the locals and their customs, listens to legends and stories. And at the same time, of course, he himself constantly experiences dangerous and exciting adventures.
Map of the Niels route in 1947 in the memorial museum in Morbach: / 
However, Niels' journey is not just a gamble. During trials, a harmful and even cruel boy learns to love, empathize, help others and forgive. He can no longer frame another person, even in order to remove the spell from himself. And at the end of the book, Niels helps to free himself from captivity to the eternal enemy of the goose flock - the fox Smirre. No wonder in one of the questionnaires to the question "Your favorite virtue?" Christian Lagerlöf answered: "Mercy."
Rice. - B. Diodorov.
The writer is not only interested in people. A huge number of pages of the book is devoted to the nature of Sweden. Not only animals talk here, but even rivers, rocks and forests. Selma was one of the first to make people think about ecology, about preserving the natural environment from human encroachment.
Selma Lagerlöf "The Amazing Journey of Niels":
“- If you learned something good from us, Little Shorty, then maybe you don’t think that people should own everything on earth,” the leader goose began. “Think, you people have such large lands, so much land! Surely you can’t leave a few bare skerries, a few shallow lakes, swampy bogs, a few deserted rocks and remote forests for us, so that we, poor birds and animals, live there in peace and quiet!
Rice. - V. Kupriyanov.
On November 24, 1906, the first volume of Nils Holgersson's Amazing Journey Through Sweden with Wild Geese appeared on store shelves. A year later, the second arrived. The spelling reform was just taking place in the country, and the book became one of the first works printed according to the new vocabulary rules.
I must say right away that the fairy tale did not delight all Swedish critics. Many of those who looked at the work from an educational and pedagogical point of view accused the writer of geographical and biological inaccuracies, reproached that the province of Småland was depicted as too miserable, and the province of Holland was only mentioned at all. There was a grain of truth in this - Nils was not very suitable for a full-fledged school textbook. Rather, it was a wonderful supplementary reading.
Rice. John Bauer from the 1906 edition
However, most Swedish readers did not bother with scientific subtleties and fell in love with the book with all their hearts. The Swedish poet Carl Snojlski enthusiastically wrote that this tale inspired "life and colors in the dry desert sand of a school lesson". He was echoed by the Swedish researcher Niels Afzelius: “Instead of writing a handbook for university students, she gave children an incentive to learn”.
Selma Lagerlöf:
“I think and hope that fairy tales will make a child interested in the true state of things. …As long as children have fun reading this book, it will win.”
After "Niels", the fame of Selma Lagerlöf acquires first a national and then a worldwide scope. In 1909, the writer becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded as "a tribute to the high idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual insight that distinguish all her works." In 1914, Lagerlöf again becomes the first - the first female member of the Swedish Academy.
Selma Lagerlöf in 1906
Having received the award, Selma immediately redeems her native estate Morbakku, where she lives until the end of her days (she died on March 16, 1940). After the death of the writer, Morbakka turns into a museum, Nils riding a goose becomes one of the unofficial symbols of Sweden, and in 1991, portraits of the writer and her heroes adorned the 20 Swedish krona banknote.
Nils becomes Russian
“... in Sweden, in 1969, I wanted to translate the book of Selma
Lagerlöf on Niels Holgersson. However, this turned out to be
not easy and took almost 7 years of hard work.
I had, like the writer herself, to study geography,
geology and folklore of Sweden, zoology and botany.
(L. Braude, from the preface to the translation of "Niels" 1982)
Niels "scattered" around the world. He also looked into the Soviet Union. It is interesting that in our culture there are at least three "Niels", and they are all very different.
Although the first Russian translation of the tale was made by Lyudmila Khavkina back in 1908, it was not very successful and did not win success among readers. Truly, "Niels" became our own only in the Soviet era. At the same time, the attitude towards Lagerlöf herself in the USSR for some time was ambiguous. On the one hand, the writer was a conscious anti-fascist. Literally before her death, she managed to help, persecuted by the regime, the poetess Nelly Sachs to emigrate from Germany to Sweden. On the other hand, during the Soviet-Finnish War, Lagerlöf sympathized with the Finns and even donated her Nobel medal to help Finland.
Portrait of Selma Lagerlöf by Carl Larsson. 1908
However, this did not prevent Z. Zadunaiskaya and A. Lyubarskaya from releasing their version of the fairy tale in 1940 under the title "Nils' Wonderful Journey with Wild Geese." True, the translators treated the original very freely.
The volume of the book was shrunk by 6 times - instead of 55 chapters, only 17 remained. The reduction was due to the rejection of most geographical descriptions and ethnographic details. Gone are many side legends and stories that Lagerlöf diligently strung on the main thread of the plot.
As a result, the very spirit of the fairy tale has changed. Lyrics disappeared from it, the personal attitude of the writer to what was happening disappeared. The landscape, painted in watercolor, turned into vivid pictures. Only the central adventurous plot remained - and that one, fairly abridged and rewritten.
The first edition of the retelling by Z. Zadunaiskaya and A. Lyubarskaya.
But such a "Niels" immediately gained immense popularity, and is still among our favorite children's books.
The popularity of the retelling led to the fact that in 1955, at the Soyuzmultfilm studio, Vladimir Polkovnikov and Alexandra Snezhno-Blotskaya filmed the film The Enchanted Boy, thanks to which millions have already learned about Niels.
I still remember both the string of rats following Niels' pipe, and the heavy tread of the statue of the king, which terrified me (I did not know about Pushkin's "The Bronze Horseman" and "The Stone Guest" then). And, of course, the exclamation immediately entered our lexicon: "You're still a strong old man, Rosenbaum!".
Needless to say, the plot of the cartoon was further shortened and changed (suffice it to recall the credits “And nothing special happened in Lapland either”). The animators also had free rein over the images of the characters. So, the artists gave the leader of the rats the features and habits of Hitler, and the statues of the king and Rosenbom acquired an outward resemblance to the actors who voiced them - Alexei Konovalov and Georgy Vitsin.
The speech of the leader of the rats from m-f:
"My brave warriors! I brought you here, and I will lead you further! We have seized the cellar of Glimmingen Castle, we have seized the grain that will last us a lifetime! But this is not enough! The whole castle should belong to us!!! And most importantly - we will tear the bats to pieces - these miserable traitors who have the audacity to be called mice!
In 1958, a whole evening dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the writer was already arranged in the USSR. But the full translation of her fairy tale had to wait a long time.
It came out only in 1982 through the efforts of a specialist in Scandinavian literature and an advocate of adequate translations - Lydia Braude. Naturally, with comments. It turned out that in the original, the fairy tale about Niels is very, very different - not so dynamic and cheerful, resembling a tree with numerous branches and many tablets with unfamiliar names - the university town of Uppsala, the province of Skåne, the island of Gotland, the Botanical Garden of Carl Linnaeus, etc. We learn that the name of the goose is not Martin, but Morten, and the name of the leader goose - Kebnekaise - is the name of the highest mountain peak in Sweden.
1982 edition in trans. L. Braude.
Naturally, a complete translation is extremely important for understanding what Lagerlöf wanted to convey to the reader. But I'm afraid that, despite the additional number of interesting legends and adventures, our child is unlikely to master all this Swedish ethnography. Unlike Swedish children, she is not close to him and, accordingly, of little interest.
To better understand the differences between the versions of Niels, let's take a few scenes that are present in the original, and in the retelling, and in the cartoon.
1) STRING
In the original, Niels' parents go to church, and the boy is forced to read a Sunday sermon. In the retelling of 1940, all religious attributes have disappeared - the parents go to the fair, and Niels teaches the usual lessons.
The brownie, who bewitched the boy, in the retelling becomes, more familiar, a gnome. If in the books, he reduces Niels arbitrarily, punishing him for greed, then in m-f Nils himself makes a mistake, declaring that he wants to become like a gnome. Of course, the boy meant magical abilities, but the dwarf granted his wish in his own way.
Frame from the film "The Enchanted Boy" (1955).
2) RAT OUT
I think it's no secret to anyone that the expulsion of rats from Glimmingen Castle with the help of a magic pipe is a variation on the German theme, which saved the city of Gimmeln from rats, and when they refused to pay him, he took all the Gimmeln children out of the city.
Footage from the film "The Enchanted Boy" (1955).
Unlike the magic pipe, Glimmengheus Castle is not a fantasy. This unsightly gloomy building with thick walls first belonged to the Danes, and then was recaptured by the Swedes - along with the entire province of Skåne, where Niels was from.
The real castle of Glimmengheus.
In retelling and m-f, the story with the pipe looks simple and clear: rats are evil, and the boy drowns them in the lake. In the original, there are two types of rats: black (old-timers of the castle) and gray (alien invaders). Therefore, in fact, Niels is on the side of some rats against the second. His goal is not to kill the gray rats, but to take them away from the castle so that the black rats have time to return and protect their haven. By the way, gray rats really came to Europe from Asia only in the Middle Ages and pretty much pushed out the black variety that had dominated before.
3) TWO STATUES
The port city where Nils met the two statues came to life is called Karlskrona (Swedish for "Karl's Crown"). It was founded by the great Swedish king Charles XI back in 1680 with the aim of founding a naval base here. It is clear that there is a statue of Karl in the city - it is she who is teased so thoughtlessly by Niels.
The second character - a wooden statue of the Old Man Rosenbum (Rosenbom) - is also not invented by the writer. She portrays an old boatswain and really stands at the Admiral's Church (the oldest wooden church in Sweden). True, the old statue, due to wear and tear (the tree after all), was replaced with a new one after a while. A hole for coins is cut in Rosenbaum's hat, and the statue plays the role of a kind of begging mug. In m-f the church is not mentioned, and the boatswain is standing at the tavern.
Real monuments to Karl and Rosenbaum in Karlskrona.
But the end of the story is very different in all three versions. In the original, the statues simply disappear with the first rays of the sun. In the retelling, the bronze king also disappeared, but before that he managed to smash the statue of Rosenbom with his cane in a rage (they decided to remind the Soviet children once again of the cruelty of the monarchs). However, in m-f Rosenbom was spared, and the king fled because he had to return to his pedestal at exactly three o'clock.
Rosenbaum and the King from the 1955 cartoon
4) INTERCOUPLE
No less diverse was the retelling of the story with the removal of the spell. In the original, Niels learns that he can be removed if someone else wants to become as small as him. However, the boy does not want to use this method (by deception, catching people at their word), and the spell at the end of the book falls off on its own - as a reward for good deeds.
In the retelling of 1940, Nils still casts a spell on the gosling, which does not want to become an adult (for some reason, the translators decided that leaving the goose small is not such a bad thing).
In m-f, everything is reduced to more traditional fairy tale motifs. The dwarf sets Niels several conditions - "when the castle saves the pipe, when the king takes off his hat." Well, the last condition actually turns out to be a test - can the boy sacrifice Martin's life for his own salvation? Niels makes the right moral choice, and it is for the sacrifice in the name of a friend that the dwarf frees him from the spell.
Monument to Niels in Karlskrona.
As you can see, each of the three Russian guises of Nils has its own advantages and disadvantages. Of course, children will love m-f and retelling for a long time to come. But the full translation will be of interest to older people - especially those who are interested in Sweden, its history and folklore. Perhaps, over time, one of the translators will dare to give another retelling, which will simplify the geographical component for our reader, but at the same time not greatly distort the plot, leave many interesting stories and preserve the lyrical spirit of the fairy tale of the great Swedish writer.
Selma Lagerlöf fairy tale "Niels' wonderful journey with wild geese"
The main characters of the fairy tale "Nils' wonderful journey with wild geese"
- Niels, a boy of 12 years old, at the beginning of the story is a mischievous and hooligan whom no one loved. In the end, he becomes responsive and kind. During the journey, he helps birds and animals, and everyone loves and praises him.
- Goose Martin, was home, but flew to Lapland, found a bride, returned home and started goslings
- Akka, the leader of the goose flock. Fair and strict, but kind and sympathetic. When he gets to know Nils better, he tries to help him in everything.
- Fox Smirre, cunning and cruel, envious, treacherous, vindictive, chained
- Captured gnome
- Niels is getting smaller
- Flying with Martin
- Fox Smirre
- Niels and the little squirrel
- Nils and rats
- Holiday
- exile fox
- Smirre chasing geese
- Crows and jug
- Smirre on a chain
- Bronze king and wooden boatswain
- Strange underwater city
- Nils in the den
- Nils saves the bears
- Slipper
- Martin in captivity
- Martin met Martha
- In Lapland
- Gorgo and the Mystery of the Owls
- The way back
- Lucky Man and Manuscript
- Home Sweet Home
- Gosling Yuksi
- Farewell to Akka
The shortest content of the fairy tale "Niels' wonderful journey with wild geese" for the reader's diary in 6 sentences
- Nils catches the gnome and becomes small, he flies away with Martin, the white goose
- Niels saves a goose from a fox and is accepted into the flock
- Niels helps a squirrel find a squirrel. drives away the rats, chains the fox and saves the bears.
- Niels ends up in Lapland, and the goose Martin finds a bride and gets goslings.
- Nils learns how to become human, but helps Lucky get the manuscript back.
- Niels returns home and casts a spell over the capricious gosling Yuksi, he becomes a boy and his parents are happy.
The main idea of \u200b\u200bthe fairy tale "The wonderful journey of Niels with wild geese"
Life is beautiful and amazing, like the world around us, but it is given for good deeds.
What does the fairy tale "Nils' wonderful journey with wild geese" teach?
This tale teaches to be kind and honest. It teaches you to sacrifice your interests for the sake of your friends, teaches you not to be afraid of enemies and find a way out in difficult situations. This fairy tale teaches us responsiveness, courage, disinterestedness. Teaches to love nature, teaches that every living being in the world has the right to happiness.
Review of the fairy tale "The Wonderful Journey of Niels with the Wild Geese"
This is a very beautiful and interesting fairy tale, in which the lot of the boy Niels has a lot of dangerous and exciting adventures. From a mischievous and bully, Nils becomes a kind and honest boy, always ready to help a friend. He grows up and understands that the world is beautiful, and a person must take care of it and protect it. I really enjoyed this story and I don't regret reading it at all.
Proverbs to the fairy tale "The wonderful journey of Niels with wild geese"
Life is given for good deeds.
Live for people, people will live for you.
Whoever has not met difficulties in life will not become a real person.
Summary, brief retelling of the fairy tale "Nils' Wonderful Journey with Wild Geese" chapter by chapter
1. Forest gnome.
In a Swedish village there lived a boy named Nils, a big prankster and mischievous. When he was 12 years old, his father and mother went to the fair, and Nils was ordered to teach lessons.
Niels read a book for a while and fell asleep. And when I woke up I saw the open lid of the chest and a little dwarf. Niels caught the gnome in a net and he began to ask to be released, promising a gold coin. Niels decided that this was not enough, but suddenly he got a crack and dropped the net.
The room suddenly became very large, and he, Niels, became the size of a sparrow.
Niels goes out into the yard and the chickens begin to pinch him. The cat also refused to help him and nearly ate him.
At this time, wild geese flew past and called domestic geese with them to Lapland. Goose Martin was about to fly, Niels clung to him and ended up in the air.
2. Riding a goose.
Nils was afraid of falling off, but soon got used to flying on a goose. He began to ask Martin to turn home, but he threatened to throw Niels off.
Soon Martin began to get tired, but Akka, the leader of the swans, did not stop. Martin began to fall and caught on the willow. On it he rested and with renewed vigor flew after the wild geese. Martin caught up with the pack.
The geese landed near the lake, but Martin was too tired to reach the water. Niels reached him and Martin, having drunk, came to his senses. He brought a carp to Nils and thanked him for his help.
Akka asked Martin and allowed him to fly with the wild geese, she liked the courage of the goose. But she demanded that Niels not be.
Martin decided to secretly carry Nils.
3. Night thief.
At night, the fox Smirre crept up to the geese and dragged one goose. Nils rushed after him and grabbed the fox by the tail. Smirre released the goose and wanted to recoup Niels. Niels climbed a tree and laughed at the fox from there. The geese began to tease the fox, and he, trying to catch them, was completely exhausted. Martin removed Niels from the tree and the geese flew on.
4. New friends and new enemies
Niels flew along with the geese. He had to eat nuts, and once he was attacked by ants. The ants bit Nils badly and he fell ill. Martin and Akka looked after him.
Once Martin brought nuts to Nils from Sirle's squirrel, Niels decided to go to the squirrel and thank her. Magpie wanted to show Nils the way, but led him into the thicket and flew away.
Nils finds a squirrel's nest and learns that one squirrel is missing. Nils finds the squirrel and returns it to Sirla. He is praised by forest birds.
5. Magic pipe
A flock of geese sits near a stream near Glimmengen Castle. The stork Ermenrich comes to visit the geese. The stork tells about the rats that attack the castle. Nils agrees to help and flies with the stork and Akka.
The rats surrounded the castle, but Nils played his pipe and led the rats into the water. The magic pipe, which all animals obey, was brought by an owl, to whom the forest gnome gave it.
Niels was known as a fearless rat slayer.
6. Holiday on the mountain Kulaberg
Niels is taken to the festival of birds and animals, which was not a single person. Birds flew in whole clouds. Among the animals was the fox Smirre, who wanted to catch the wild goose of their flock, but the sparrows warned the geese. Smirre killed a sparrow and all the animals and birds judged him. Smirre was expelled from the pack and the tip of his ear was bitten off.
Nils hears the conversation of owls and learns that there is a way to become a man.
7. Chase.
Geese fly north in the rain. The fox Smyrre follows the geese. Once he persuades the marten to attack the geese, but the geese fly away, and the marten says that the white goose threw a stone at her. Again Smirre catches up with the geese and persuades the otter, but the otter returns with a thorn in its paw.
Smirre demands to give him Niels, but Akka refuses, and the fox promises to pursue the pack to the end.
8. Crows from the robber mountain
Smirre meets old friends - ravens who cannot open the jar. Smirre says that there is silver in the jar and invites the ravens to kidnap Nils.
The crows steal Nils, but Nils manages to shout to the starlings that he was dragged away by the crows.
Niels opens a jar of coins to the crows and the chieftain of the raven Fumle-Drumle takes it to the village so that it does not get to Smirra.
Nils hides from the fox under the feet of the peasants, who kick the fox, mistaking it for a dog. then Niels hides in a doghouse. The dog knocks down Smirre and Nils puts a collar on the fox.
Geese fly in and laugh when they learn that Nils put the fox on a chain
9. Bronze and wooden.
The geese stopped for the night in the city. Nils wants to see people. Nils teases the bronze statue and she follows him. Niels runs away from the bronze man and sees a wooden man. Nils gives the wooden coin and he hides Niels in his hat.
Bronze reveals himself to be the king and tells the wooden boatswain to follow him. They go to the shipyard and salute the old ship by removing their hats. The bronze one sees Nils and, in a rage, smashes the wooden one.
Niels makes a monument to the wooden one and returns to the geese.
10. Underwater city
Geese flew over the sea. The geese wait out the storm on the waves and almost get caught by the seals.
Niels throws a coin into the sea, but it falls on the sand. Nils runs after the coin and ends up in the city. All the inhabitants of the city looked at the tower clock. Merchants drag Nils with a variety of goods and ask for only one coin. Nils remembers that the coin was left on the shore, runs to it and the city disappears.
Nils is found by geese. Akka tells the story of a city whose inhabitants were very greedy and sank all the ships so as not to show the way to their city. For this, the sea king became angry with them and flooded the city. Once a century, the city rises for an hour, and if any stranger enters the city and buys something, the curse will be lifted.
11. In the bear's lair
Nils fell off Martin and fell into the bear's lair. The bear cubs are playing with Niels and have completely tortured him. Then they go to bed and Niels falls asleep too. At night, a bear comes and wants to eat a man, but the she-bear stands up for Niels.
When the bears fall asleep, Nils runs away. He meets the hunters and learns that they are going to the lair. Nils returns and warns the bears. The bear takes his family away and, having learned that Niels is the one who travels with the geese, decides to help him. He calls the raven Fumle-Drumle, and he takes Nils to the wild geese.
12. Captured
Niels slipper falls and he and Martin go down after him. But the slipper is found by Oos and Mats, a boy and a girl. They decide to try on a slipper for their cat. Martin pulls out his slipper, but Mats catches Martin and calls him Marty.
The hostess sees that it is a strange goose and carries it into the house. Niels enters the house and cuts the ropes. Martin runs away, but the hostess grabs him. Niels pricked the hostess with a knife and she released Martin in amazement.
13. Goose country
Martin and Niels stop to rest and Nils meets the goose Martha. Martin and Nils offer Martha to fly with them. They catch up with the flock and end up in Lapland. Akka greets Nils, who tells about the bride for Martin.
More and more geese fly around, and Niels builds a house for himself with the help of swallows.
Martin and Marta have goslings
14. Adopted.
Eagle Gorgo flies to the geese. He says that Akka's friends are his friends. When the eagle flies away Akka tells his story.
When Gorgo was a chick he lost his parents and Akka fed him. Gorgo grew up with geese and considered himself a goose. But everyone around him was afraid and Akka told Gorgo the truth about his birth. Gorgo stayed in Lapland.
15. The secret of owls.
Akka shows Nils Lapland, and he, seeing the snow on the mountains, remembers about the troll who wanted to build a house on the top of the mountain and froze.
Niels sees plagues and locals.
Niels tells Akka about the conversation of owls and she promises to find out the secret of how Niels can become a man again.
After three Akka calls Nils and he sees an eagle next to the goose. It turns out that the eagle flew to the castle and made friends with the owls. The eagle tells Niels about how to become a man and forces him to learn the spell.
16. Lucky and unlucky
Geese say goodbye to Lapland and head south. Raven Fumle-Drumle tells Nils that he has found someone who wants to switch places with him. He brings Niels to the young man's house.
Two students lived in Uppsala - Lucky and Loser.
Loser brought Lucky his manuscript. the manuscript was so interesting that Lucky forgot about the exam, and when he jumped up, the wind carried away all the sheets. On the exam, Lucky received a deuce and did not know how to tell Lucky about the lost manuscript. Lucky agrees to trade places with Niels to be carried by birds.
Niels casts a spell, but stops. He, along with the raven, collects the manuscript and returns it to Lucky.
17. At home.
Niels returns home and sees his parents sadly wondering where their son is.
Nils says goodbye to Martin. But the little goose Yuksi does not want to fly and says that she dreams of being like Niels. Then Niels casts a spell and Yuksi becomes the size of a sparrow. And Niels becomes a boy again. Parents are happy.
Niels ceases to understand the geese, he goes to say goodbye to Akka. Akka hugs the boy and the geese fly away.
Nils began to go to school again and is now studying for five.
Signs of a fairy tale in the fairy tale "Nils' wonderful journey with wild geese"
- Magical creature - gnome
- Fabulous transformations - Niels becomes small, and then big again.
A book of Ripolovsky quality with wonderful illustrations by Bulatov and Vasiliev, translated by Tokmakova.
As in the case of Alice in Wonderland, I was looking for my Niels. Since there are many different options in the stores, your eyes run wide!
But something stopped me every time: either the size was not the right one, or the illustrations were not for me, or the serialization of the publication called into question the quality.
In general, as it turned out, my instinct did not let me down :))
I waited and waited and waited!
In my opinion, this is the best reissue of Niels in recent years.
Despite the shortcomings that other reviewers point out.
In my opinion, coated paper does not spoil the quality of the book at all. It is convenient to read it and look at the illustrations too (by the way, the illustrations turned out to be quite bright and saturated). I wouldn't call Tokmakova's translation bad either. The main thing is that the child likes and reads easily. Personally, we had no difficulties with reading.
Illustrations by Bulatov and Vasiliev for Niels are known from the old edition of 1993 (then this book was last reprinted, if my memory serves me). These illustrations are very similar to those familiar to us, cartoons. Personally, this was my main criterion when choosing a book.
And Niels here turned out to be very characteristic, mischievous, hooligan. In the depiction of characters, artists show character, and not just drawing faces. And in general, all the illustrations are drawn emotionally and this is what carries away.
In general, it seems to me that this book is one of those that must be read to all children, and especially boys. It is about many things: about courage, about the attitude towards our smaller brothers, about the attitude towards the weak, about wisdom, about fate... that's a lot of questions at once in one book.
Here, far from everything is as superficial as it might seem at first glance, like "what's up, a boy with geese ... adventures ... la-la-la ...". An-no! Please read and think, gentlemen, small and big readers! Read and think!
PS: the book came "delicious" - packed in a film, with a red ribbon-lace :) About the translation - I'm quoting chapter 1 in the photo so that you can read it and decide for yourself whether you need it or not :)
In the photo I give the entire first chapter and a few more illustrations from the following chapters, so that you yourself can evaluate and decide for yourself.
