Serpents verts sur les rives de l’Elbe. La couleur et l’expérience du merveilleux dans Le Petit Zachée surnommé Cinabre et Le Vase d’or d’E.T.A. Hoffmann [Green Snakes on the Banks of the Elbe. Color and the Experience of Wonder in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Little Zacchaeus Called Cinnabar and The Golden Pot]

This comparative study of the tales Little Zaches Called Cinnabar and The Golden Vase aims to show the sensory mechanisms of the wonderful experience in E.T.A. Hoffmann. In particular, color seems to have a decisive role in the strategies of perceptual disruption that accompany the passage from reality to a supernatural dimension of poetic enchantement.