All books are about: “how many pages are in the book…. Battle in the Underground Country Sergei Sukhinov
Plot
Wizards
- Gingema (evil)
- Villina (kind)
- Bastinda (evil)
- Stella (kind)
- Goodwin (mysterious)
Other positive characters
- Prem Kokus
- fregosa
Other negative characters
- Cannibal
Version difference
There are many editions of the tale, and their texts often do not match. The book has been revised many times by the author, and if the early versions are a translation of Baum's fairy tale with the replacement of some episodes, then in the later versions both the images of the characters and the explanations of events are significantly changed, which creates its own atmosphere of the Magic Land, which is noticeably different from Oz.
The three most famous versions and their main features are:
- Edition of the year - closest to Baum's text:
- Ellie is an orphan living with her uncle and aunt;
- sorceresses and secondary characters do not have names;
- tiger bears live in the forest between ravines;
- in the mountains north of the Pink Country live short, armless men with elongated necks.
- Edition of the year:
- Ellie has parents;
- sorceresses get familiar names;
- tiger bears are replaced with saber-toothed tigers;
- armless shorties were replaced by Jumpers - high-jumping little men, hitting the enemy with their heads and fists.
- Third version:
- The Scarecrow at first speaks with many reservations, gradually moving to the correct speech;
- before meeting with the Cannibal, Ellie takes off her shoes, thus losing her magical protection;
- get the names of Fleet, Lestar, Warr;
- The Leapers call themselves the Marrans;
- The Tin Woodman does not say that he will bring his bride to the Purple Country;
- removed all references to elephants in the territory of the Magic Land;
- it is mentioned that the appointment of the Scarecrow as the ruler of the Emerald City caused discontent among some courtiers.
The latter differences seem to be designed to better connect the book with the sequels already written by this time. In addition to the major changes listed above, there are many minor textual differences between these editions, such as the replacement of individual words. We can say that the fairy tale was completely rewritten several times.
The book is included in the program for students pedagogical universities on academic discipline Children's literature .
Differences from the original
Plot discrepancies
Although you can retell the plot of The Wizard of Oz and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the same words if you wish, the differences between these books are numerous and go far beyond retelling in another language and replacing proper names, as it might seem from the first glance. Here is a short list of the main differences:
- The main character's name is Ellie, not Dorothy, and she has parents (John and Anna Smith), while Dorothy Gale is an orphan living with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em.
- Volkov's description of the Kansas life of a girl is less gloomy than Baum's.
- The hurricane that brought Ellie to the Magic Land is caused by the evil sorceress Gingem, who wants to destroy the world (for Baum, this hurricane is a common natural disaster).
- Toto, once in the Magic Land, begins to talk like a human, like all the animals of the country. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he remains speechless, and only in one of the continuations of the tale does Baum explain and correct this discrepancy.
- Totoshka at Volkov's wants to deal with the neighbor's dog Hector.
- The orientation of the parts of the Magic Land to the cardinal points is a mirror image of Oz: if Baum has the Blue Land, where Dorothy begins her journey, is in the east, then Volkov has it in the west.
- Names of countries have been changed by color: Baum's Yellow Country corresponds to Volkov's Purple Country, and vice versa. The arrangement of countries by Volkov is generally less logical, the pattern according to which the intermediate color of the spectrum - green - is between the extreme ones, is lost.
- In The Wizard of Oz, the witches are not named, with the exception of Glinda, the Good Witch of the South. Volkov's name for the good sorceress of the Pink Country is Stella, while the sorceresses of the North, East, and West receive the names of Willina, Gingham, and Bastinda, respectively.
- Baum's Oz is both the name of the country and the name of the wizard. Volkov does not use this name at all, the wizard is called Goodwin, and the country is called Fairy (sometimes Goodwin's country).
- Ellie receives a prediction about three cherished wishes that must be fulfilled so that she can return to Kansas.
- According to Baum, the crow that advised the Scarecrow to get brains taught the rest of the birds not to be afraid of him. Volkov does not directly mention this. The crow itself is described by Volkov as “big disheveled”, by Baum it is “old”.
- The woodcutter in Volkov's books (and - by tradition - in most subsequent Russian translations of the Oz tales) is made of iron. In the original it is tin.
- Between meeting the Woodcutter and meeting the Cowardly Lion, Volkov inserts an additional chapter in which, while the Scarecrow and the Woodcutter argue about the advantages of brains and hearts, Ellie is kidnapped by the Ogre. The Scarecrow and the Woodcutter manage to free the girl and kill the Cannibal.
- According to Baum, not Saber-toothed tigers live in the forest between the ravines, but Kalidas - creatures with the body of a bear and the head of a tiger.
- Volkov is told the name of the queen of field mice (Ramina) and it is clearly indicated that when parting, she left Ellie a silver whistle with which she could be summoned. In Baum, the mouse queen simply says that Dorothy can call her at any time when she goes out into the field, although later Dorothy calls the mouse queen with a whistle, which had not previously appeared in the narrative.
- In Baum, the guard guarding the wizard's palace immediately lets the travelers through, he is simply called "a soldier with green sideburns", Volkov gives him a name - Din Gior and introduces a scene with combing his beard.
- Goodwin, sending Ellie and her friends to the Purple Land, orders them to depower Bastinda, no matter how. Oz explicitly orders Dorothy to kill the evil sorceress.
- The scenes in the throne room are described slightly differently, as are the scenes in which the evil sorceress sends her animals against Ellie and her companions. The words of the spell that summons the Flying Monkeys are also changed - like all the spells in Volkov's books, they are more melodic and do not require strange accompanying gestures, such as standing on one leg, as Baum did.
- The Flying Monkeys do not harm Ellie for fear of the silver slippers. According to Baum, the girl is protected by the kiss of the good sorceress of the North, which Volkov does not mention at all. Added a conversation where Bastinda, in particular, tells Ellie that Gingema was her sister.
- Ellie's stay in captivity at Bastinda is described in much more detail, the image of the cook Fregosa appears, the motive for preparing an uprising against Bastinda is added.
- Although Ellie did not assume that water was deadly for Bastinda, she was aware of her fear of water. Sometimes Ellie even used water spilled on the floor to get rid of the sorceress for a while.
- In order to take away the silver slipper from Baum, the sorceress used a rod, which she made invisible. At Volkov's, Bastinda lost all magical tools and took advantage of the outstretched rope.
- Bastinda, when Ellie pours water on her, explains that she has not washed her face in centuries because she received a prediction of death from water. In Baum, the Witch of the West simply states that the water will kill her, and then informs Dorothy that she remains the mistress of the castle, and admits that she was very evil in life.
- Volkov's history of the Flying Monkeys is described in much less detail than Baum's.
- At Volkov's, Totoshka discovers Goodwin hiding behind a screen by smell. According to Baum, Toto unmasks the wizard by accident when he jumps to the side, frightened by the Lion's roar. In the scenes that follow, until the fake wizard takes off for hot-air balloon, there are many small differences.
- Goodwin, like Ellie, is from Kansas. Oz is from Omaha, near Kansas. Goodwin, before becoming an aeronaut, was an actor, playing kings and heroes, while Oz was a ventriloquist.
- According to Baum, the path to the good sorceress of the south passes through a forest with warring trees and Chinaland. In Volkov, these countries are completely absent, but a chapter with a flood has been added.
- Volkov's final obstacle to the Roseland is not the Hammerheads. Hammer Heads), they are also armless short men who shoot with their heads, and Jumpers (Marrans).
- Back in Kansas, Ellie meets Goodwin in a nearby town. Baum does not have this episode.
Differences in the emotional and semantic dominant
Comparison of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and "The Wizard of the Emerald City" showed significant differences between these works in terms of emotional and semantic dominant. While the original text can be considered neutral or polydominant (with elements of "beautiful" and "cheerful" text), Volkov's arrangement is a "dark" text. This is manifested in the mentions of changes in emotional states that Baum does not have, vocabulary with the semes “fear”, “laughter”, detailing of descriptions (with an excessive transfer of the size of objects and external characteristics of characters), more vocabulary with the “sound” component, onomatopoeia. Water is a very frequent semantic component: rain and the flood of the river are the main events of the chapter "Flood" added by Volkov, ponds, fountains, a moat with water are found in the description of Goodwin's palace - details that are not in the original, the mention of the stream also appears when describing the ravine, crossing the road. Another feature of Volkov's text is frequent exclamatory sentences, especially in passages that were not in the original.
Translations
Despite the fact that the book itself is a translation, it has been translated into many languages, including English and German, and published in almost all former socialist countries.
The first German edition of the Wizard was published in the GDR and the FRG in the mid-1960s. For 40 years, the book has gone through 10 editions; even after the reunification of Germany, when the original books of Baum became available to East Germans, translations of Volkov's books continue to be consistently sold out. Some changes were made to the text of the 11th edition, which was published in, and subsequent ones, and the book also received a new design.
In Germany, two radio plays based on the book were staged:
- , Director: Dieter Scharfenberg, LITERA junior 1991, MC.
- Der Zauberer der Smaragdenstadt, Director: Paul Hartmann, Deutsche Grammophon - Junior 1994, MC.
In May, an audio version of the book was released on two . The text was read by the famous actress and director Katharina Thalbach:
- Der Zauberer der Smaragdenstadt, Jumbo Neue Medien, 2CD, ISBN 3-8337-1533-2
Screen adaptations and productions
see also
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This is the story of the girl Ellie and her dog Toto, by a strange coincidence or really thanks to the magical powers that ended up in the Magic Land.
In the process of trying to return home, she meets three creatures: one is made of straw, another is made of iron, and the third is an ordinary-looking lion, but speaking a human language, however, like all the other inhabitants of a fabulous place. The author of The Wizard of the Emerald City described the experiences of his friends so colorfully and in detail that children all over the world sincerely worried about them and wrote heartfelt letters to Alexander Volkov.
Book Two: Oorfene Deuce and His Wooden Soldiers
An apprentice of an evil sorceress and part-time carpenter, he randomly became the owner of a powerful powder that turns any object into a living being. Thanks to his ability to work with wood, he creates an entire army, usurps power in the world of fairy-tale men.
Resourceful friends find a way to warn Ellie, who goes to the rescue with her uncle and frees the country from the oppression of Oorfene Deuce, who was expelled in disgrace.
"Seven Underground Kings" - a prequel to "The Wizard of Oz"
Volkov summed up the content at the time of the foundation of the fairy-tale country, how it was divided into sectors and due to what circumstances the country of miners arose. The life of seven kings in one kingdom is described, and the reader will also learn the history of the emergence of the sacred Soporific Spring. Not without Ellie: again, quite by accident, she enters the world of miners with her cousin and again helps the locals to achieve justice.
"The Fiery God of the Marranos" - the fourth part of the story
In the fourth part, Urfin Deuce again comes to the fore, having accumulated hatred and a desire for revenge for years, as well as again to enslave the inhabitants of a fairy-tale land. He manages to subdue the Marran tribe, who were one of the most primitive tribes in Fairyland. He begins to gradually seize territories and again becomes a usurper. In parallel with these events in Kansas, Ellie's grown sister, together with a friend, after hearing stories about the wonderful world, go to visit and arrive on time. After a series of adventures, they save the inhabitants from oppression and return home happily.
Book Five: "Yellow Mist"
In this part, Oorfene Deuce appears in a completely new guise: he seemed to be reborn anew and stood on the bright side in the fight against an ancient sorceress who wants to turn the inhabitants of the Magic Land into her slaves and sends them to attack.
The whole country revolts against the sorceress, and Annie and Uncle Charlie are also called in, who again have to help their friends. New adventures, a lot of interesting twists and turns delight the reader.
"The Secret of the Abandoned Castle": the final part
Here the author departed from the idea of all parts of the "Wizard of the Emerald City": all the sorceresses and sorceresses, peoples were mentioned in order. Now Volkov decided to include an alien race in the plot, because the year of writing (1975) just corresponded to various fantasies about space.
Taught by bitter experience, the residents immediately send messengers to Annie, who asks for help from Freddy and Tim. All the inhabitants of the Magic Land are involved in the battle with alien creatures, and good, as usual, triumphs.
Significant characters
Of course, it is unlikely that it will be possible to list and mention the interesting inhabitants of all parts of the Wizard of the Emerald City in order, but the most important are:
- Ellie - main character the first part, a girl from the human world, originally from Kansas.
- Toto, aka Totoshka - Ellie's dog.
- Scarecrow - a fairy-tale man made of straw, later the ruler of the Emerald City.
- The Cowardly Lion, later called the Bold.
- Tin Woodman - A man made of iron tends to rust when exposed to water.
- Oorfene Deuce is a carpenter, a student of the sorceress Gingema, who twice tried to usurp the Fairyland.
- Gingema is an evil sorceress who lives in the Blue Country. Was accidentally killed by Ellie's house.
- Bastinda is an evil sorceress who feared water under pain of death, the ruler of the Purple Country.
- Din Gior is a soldier with a very long beard who guarded the entrance to the Emerald Palace.
- Kaggi-Kar is a human-speaking crow, a close friend of the Scarecrow.
- Great Goodwin is the ruler of the Emerald City before the Scarecrow, a man who accidentally became a "powerful wizard".
- Faramant is a close friend of Dean Gior and the keeper of the green glasses.
"The Wizard of the Emerald City" and all subsequent books in this wonderful series were written by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov, a Russian writer who simultaneously worked as a teacher, director of a school in Yaroslavl and studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, from which he graduated at the age of forty. He had a great passion for learning languages, which served as the basis for writing the first book, The Wizard of the Emerald City. Volkov was attracted by the story "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz": he took it in his native English language as exercises in translation, the notes of which he eventually corrected and published as a separate novel.
The book was so popular that the subsequent parts of The Wizard of Oz had to be written, telling in order about all the inhabitants of this fabulous area: the munchkins and their battle with wooden soldiers, the gloomy carpenter Jus and his repeated attempts to enslave the entire Magic Land, about the girl Ellie, her relatives and friends who, by the will of fate, ended up in this country.
The main idea that runs through all the parts in order of The Wizard of the Emerald City and subsequent books touches on the most important spiritual values that are held in high esteem not only in the world of people, but also among fairy tale characters and even animals: fidelity in friendship, a sense of compassion for one's neighbor, justice and honor.
In the middle of the vast Kansas steppe lived a girl, Ellie. Her father, farmer John, worked in the fields all day, and her mother, Anna, took care of the housework.
They lived in a small van, removed from the wheels and put on the ground.
The furnishings of the house were poor: an iron stove, a wardrobe, a table, three chairs and two beds. Next to the house, at the very door, a "hurricane cellar" was dug out. In the cellar, the family sat out during storms.
Steppe hurricanes more than once overturned farmer John's light dwelling. But John did not lose heart: when the wind subsided, he raised the house, the stove and the beds fell into place. Ellie was picking up pewter plates and mugs from the floor, and everything was fine until the next hurricane.
The steppe stretched out to the very horizon, as flat as a tablecloth. Here and there one could see the same poor houses as John's house. Around them were arable lands where farmers sowed wheat and corn.
Ellie knew all the neighbors well for three miles around. Uncle Robert lived in the west with his sons Bob and Dick. Old Rolf lived in a house in the north. He made wonderful windmills for children.
The wide steppe did not seem dull to Ellie: after all, it was her homeland. Ellie didn't know any other places. She saw mountains and forests only in pictures, and they did not attract her, perhaps because they were poorly drawn in cheap Hellenic books.
When Ellie got bored, she called the cheerful dog Totoshka and went to visit Dick and Bob or went to Grandpa Rolf, from whom she never returned without a homemade toy.
Barking, Totoshka jumped across the steppe, chasing crows, and was infinitely pleased with himself and his little mistress. Totoshka had black hair, pointed ears, and small, funny eyes that shone. Toto was never bored and could play with the girl all day long.
Ellie had a lot to worry about. She helped her mother with the housework, and her father taught her to read, write and count, because the school was far away, and the girl was still too young to go there every day.
Ellie was sitting on the porch one summer evening, reading a story aloud. Anna was washing clothes.
“And then the strong, mighty hero Arnaulf saw a wizard as tall as a tower,” Ellie read in a singsong voice, running her finger along the lines. “Fire flew out of the wizard’s mouth and nostrils ...” Mom, Ellie asked, looking up from her book, “are there wizards now?”
“No, my dear. Wizards lived in the old days, and then they disappeared. And what are they for. And without them, it's quite a hassle ...
Ellie wrinkled her nose funny.
“Still, it’s boring without wizards. If I suddenly became a queen, I would definitely order that there should be a magician in every city and in every village. And that he performed all sorts of miracles for children.
- What, for example? Mother asked smiling.
- Well, what ... So that every girl and every boy, waking up in the morning, would find a big sweet gingerbread under their pillow ... Or ... - Ellie looked sadly at her rough, worn shoes. “Or that all the children should have nice light shoes.
“You can get shoes even without a wizard,” Anna objected. - You will go with dad to the fair, he will buy ...
While the girl was talking to her mother, the weather began to deteriorate.
Just at this very time in a distant land, beyond high mountains conjured in a gloomy deep cave the evil sorceress Gingema.
It was terrible in the cave of Gingema. There, under the ceiling, hung a stuffed animal of a huge crocodile. Large owls sat on high poles, and bundles of dried mice hung from the ceiling, tied to strings by their tails like onions. A long thick snake coiled itself around the post and shook its flat head evenly. And there were many other strange and terrible things in the vast cave of Gingema.
In a large, sooty cauldron, Gingema brewed a magic potion. She threw mice into the cauldron, tearing them one by one from the bundle.
Where did the snake heads go? Gingema grumbled angrily. - I didn’t eat everything at breakfast! .. Ah, here they are, in a green pot! Well, now the potion will turn out well!.. These damned people will get it! I hate them! Spread around the world! Swamps dried up! They cut down the thickets!.. They brought out all the frogs!.. They destroy the snakes! There is nothing tasty left on earth! Unless you just eat a worm! ..
Gingema shook her bony, withered fist into space and began to throw snake heads into the cauldron.
“Oh, hateful people! So my potion is ready to kill you! I will sprinkle the forests and fields, and a storm will rise, such as has never happened before in the world!
Gingema grabbed the cauldron by the "lugs" and with an effort pulled it out of the cave. She dipped a large broom into the cauldron and began to splash her brew around.
- Break out, hurricane! Fly around the world like a rabid animal! Rip, break, crush! Overturn houses, lift into the air! Susaka, masaka, lama, rema, gema!.. Burido, furido, sama, pema, fema!..
She shouted out magic words and sprinkled around with disheveled broomstick, and the sky darkened, clouds gathered, the wind began to whistle. Lightning flashed in the distance...
- Crush, tear, break! the witch yelled wildly. - Susaka, masaka, burido, furido! Destroy, hurricane, people, animals, birds! Only frogs, mice, snakes, spiders do not touch, hurricane! May they multiply all over the world to the joy of me, the mighty sorceress Gingem! Burido, furido, susaka, masaka!
And the whirlwind howled stronger and stronger, lightning flashed, thunder rumbled deafeningly.
Gingema whirled around in wild delight, and the wind fluttered the skirts of her long mantle ...
The hurricane, caused by the magic of Gingema, reached Kansas and was approaching John's house every minute. In the distance, clouds were thickening on the horizon, lightning flashed.
Toto ran uneasily, his head thrown back, and fervently barked at the clouds, which quickly raced across the sky.
“Oh, Totoshka, how funny you are,” Ellie said. - You scare the clouds, but you yourself are a coward!
The dog really was very afraid of thunderstorms. He had seen many of them in his short life. Anna was worried.
- I chatted with you, daughter, but, look, a real hurricane is coming ...
The thunderous rumble of the wind was already clearly audible. The wheat in the field lay flat on the ground, and waves rolled over it like a river. An excited farmer John came running from the field.
“Storm, a terrible storm is coming! he shouted. - Hide rather in the cellar, and I will run to drive the cattle into the barn!
Anna rushed to the cellar, threw back the lid.
Ellie, Ellie! Hurry over here! she shouted.
But Totoshka, frightened by the roar of the storm and the incessant peals of thunder, ran into the house and hid there under the bed, in the farthest corner. Ellie did not want to leave her pet alone and rushed to the van after him.
And at that time an amazing thing happened.
The house turned two or three times like a carousel. He was in the middle of a hurricane. The whirlwind swirled him, lifted him up and carried him through the air.
Frightened Ellie appeared at the door of the van with Toto in her arms. What to do? Jump to the ground? But it was already too late: the house was flying high above the ground ...
The wind ruffled Anna's hair. She stood near the cellar, holding out her hands and screaming desperately. Farmer John came running from the barn and rushed to where the wagon was parked. The orphaned father and mother looked for a long time into the dark sky, constantly illuminated by the brilliance of lightning ...
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