Astrid Lindgren wrote the fairy tale night after night about the girl Pippi for her daughter Karin, who was ill at the time. The name for the main character, long and difficult to pronounce for a Russian person, was invented by the writer's daughter herself.

This tale turned sixty years old in 2015, and we present its summary. Pippi Longstocking, the heroine of this fantastic story, has been loved in our country since 1957.

A little about the author

Astrid Lindgren is the daughter of two Swedish farmers and grew up in a large and very close-knit family. She settled the heroine of a fairy tale in a small dull town, where life flows smoothly, and nothing changes. The writer herself was an extremely active person. at its request and the support of the majority of the population, it adopted a law according to which it is impossible to offend domestic animals. Below will be presented to your attention the theme of the tale and its summary. Pippi Longstocking, the main characters, Annika and Tommy, will also be featured. In addition to them, we also love the Kid and Carlson, who were invented by the world famous writer. She received the most cherished award for every storyteller - the H.K. Andersen.

What Peppy and her friends look like

Peppy is only nine years old. She is tall, thin and very strong. Her hair is bright red and burns like a flame in the sun. The nose is small, potatoes, and all covered with freckles.

Pippi walks in stockings of different colors and huge black shoes, which she sometimes adorns. Annika and Tommy, who became friends with Peppy, are the most ordinary neat and exemplary children who want adventure.

At the Chicken Villa (Chapters I - XI)

Brother and sister Tommy and Annika Settergegen lived opposite an abandoned house that stood in a neglected garden. They went to school, and then, having done their homework, they played croquet in their yard. They were very bored, and they dreamed that they would have an interesting neighbor. And now their dream came true: a red-haired girl with a monkey named Mr. Nilsson settled in the "Chicken" villa. It was brought by a real sea ship. Her mother died a long time ago and looked at her daughter from the sky, and her father, the sea captain, was washed away during the storm by a wave, and he, as Pippi thought, became the Negro king on the lost island.

With the money that the sailors gave her, and it was a heavy chest with gold coins, which the girl carried like a piece of fluff, she bought herself a horse, which she settled on the terrace. This is the very beginning of a wonderful story, its summary. Pippi Longstocking is a kind, fair and extraordinary girl.

Acquaintance with Peppy

The new girl walked down the street with her back forward. Annika and Tommy asked her why she was doing this. “That's how they go in Egypt,” the strange girl lied. And she added that in India they generally walk on their hands. But Annika and Tommy were not at all embarrassed by such a lie, because it was a funny invention, and they went to visit Pippi.

She baked pancakes for her new friends and treated them to glory, at least one egg she broke on her head. But she was not taken aback, and immediately came up with the idea that in Brazil everyone smears their heads with eggs so that their hair grows faster. The whole fairy tale consists of such harmless stories. We will only retell a few of them as this is a summary. Pippi Long Stocking, a tale full of events, can be borrowed from the library.

How Peppy surprises all townspeople

Pippi knows how not only to tell, but also to act very quickly and unexpectedly. A circus has arrived in the city - this is a great event. Together with Tommy and Annika, she went to the show. But during the performance she could not sit still. Together with the circus girl, she jumped on the back of a horse racing through the arena, then climbed under the dome of the circus and walked along the rope, she also laid the strongest man in the world on his shoulder blades and even threw him several times into the air. They wrote about her in the newspapers, and the whole city found out what an unusual girl lives in it. Only the thieves, who decided to rob her, did not know about it. It was bad for them! And Peppy also saved the kids who were on the top floor of a burning house. A lot of adventures happen with Peppy in the pages of the book. This is just a summary. Pippi Longstocking is the best girl in the world.

Peppy is getting ready for the road (chapters I - VIII)

In this part of the book, Pippi managed to go to school, take part in a school trip, and punish the bully at the fair. This shameless man scattered all his sausages at the old salesman. But Peppy punished the bully and made him pay for everything. And in the same part her dear and beloved dad returned to her.

He invited her to travel the seas with him. This is a completely quick retelling of the story of Pippi and her friends, a summary of "Pippi Longstocking" chapter by chapter. But the girl will not leave Tommy and Annika in longing, she will take them with her, with the consent of their mother, to hot countries.

On the island of the country of Veselia (chapters I - XII)

Before leaving for the warm lands at Pippi, the impudent and respectable gentleman wanted to buy her villa "Chicken" and destroy everything on it.

Peppy dealt with him quickly. She also "put in a puddle" the harmful Miss Rosenblum, who handed out gifts, by the way, boring, to the best, as she believed, children. Then Pippi gathered all the offended children and presented each of them with a large bag of caramel. All except the evil Miss were satisfied. And then Peppy, Tommy and Anika went to the country of Veselia. There they swam, caught pearls, dealt with the pirates and, full of impressions, returned home. This is a complete summary of Pippi Longstocking by chapter. Very briefly, because it is much more interesting to read about all the adventures yourself.

According to the popular newspaper, "her adoration turned everything upside down: school, family, normal behavior," because books about her "ridicule order and respect, politeness and honesty, glorify escape from reality."

For radical feminists, she is "a model of a woman in childhood." But for the frightened socialists, she is an "elite individualist". And - oh, horror! - from the point of view of a respectable professor, this is "an unnatural girl, whose adventures cause only disgust and traumatize the soul."

What a terrible subverter of foundations? The poisonous arrows of the critics are aimed at the kids' favorite mischief ─ Pippi Longstocking! Or Pippi Löngstrump, if the Swedish style.

Peppy is the "calling card" of the great storyteller Astrid Lindgren. But what is really there, Lindgren more than once admitted with a laugh that the girl in multi-colored stockings very much resembles herself. The same was proudly confirmed by the closest people of the writer ─ her son and daughter. Lasse recalled how one day his mother jumped on a tram at full speed, despite the menacing shouts of the conductor, the threat of a fine and the shoe she lost in the jump. And with what pleasure Astrid participated in all the children's games! Karin says that even at an old age, her mother climbed trees. Yes, little Karin came up with a name for Pippi, but Astrid herself endowed the character with a rebellious character.

Everyone knows the story of how Karin Lindgren fell ill with pneumonia at the age of seven, and her mother wrote funny stories about Pippi to console her daughter. But why did Astrid tell her daughter fairy tales that still shock prim mothers and highbrow literary critics?

In the 30s of the XX century, Sweden was moving at an accelerated pace towards the victory of socialism with a national face. The new model of government was named "People's House", and the topic of upbringing the younger generation was at the top. Activists stood up for the adoption of orphans, for adaptation in a society of disabled people. But ordinary children also found themselves under the most scrutiny, right up to the opening of specialized psychiatric clinics for the behavioral correction of young patients.

And here's what's interesting: people of the old formation, with slogans about family values, subconsciously pinned their hopes for the return of rigid, orthodox methods of pedagogy. However, in reality, in an industrial developing society, optimism, enthusiasm and resourcefulness in children began to be valued higher than the old-fashioned "good breeding", uncomplaining obedience. A conflict arose between the educators, which grew into a stormy public discussion.

Among Russian book lovers, the most widespread are two diametrically opposite versions of what Astrid Lindgren was doing in the 1930s and 1940s. One by one, she led the cozy life of a child-loving housewife, occasionally doing small and simple secretarial work and from time to time composing little fairy tales for family almanacs. According to another version, Lindgren, no less, was a member of the Swedish National Socialist Party and was an ardent fan of Hermann Goering: allegedly having met the pilot-ace Goering at an air show in the 1920s, the impressed Astrid in the future scrupulously embodied the features of "Nazi No. 2 "... in Carlson: charisma, appetite, aerobatics. The first version is a biography of the writer, edited for the Soviet press. The second is a network "duck" published in 2010 and still "flying" on the Internet.

It is reliably known that Lindgren was not a party member, although she supported the Social Democrats and, being aged, even stated that if it were not for creativity, she would have been involved in politics. The writer's initiatives are the struggle for the rights of children, for reducing the tax burden, for a humane treatment of pets. Not only Sweden, but also Russia, Poland, Great Britain, France, Holland, the USA and other countries, as well as UNESCO, awarded Lindgren for literary creativity, humanism, protection of children and childhood.

If we talk specifically about the 1930s and 1940s, then Astrid can hardly be called a social activist. Rather, the definition suited her journalist sister and politician brother. Gunnar Eriksson supported the Agrarian Party (now the Center Party), and in the 1930s the agrarians' manifestos really became dangerously close to the ideology of the Nazis, when, through farming and breeding, they unexpectedly came to eugenics and the slogans "Sweden for the Swedes".

Astrid was not an ordinary housewife either. In the late 30s, she entered the secretary of the world famous Swedish criminalist Harry Söderman (he just became the first head of the National Forensic Laboratory). Later, this experience inspired Lindgren to write detective stories about the young detective Kalle Blumkvist. During World War II, Astrid was a secret employee of the State Security Service. The secret service was engaged in wiretapping (covert scanning) of letters from citizens in order to identify those who sympathize with the warring parties on the territory of neutral Sweden.

But back to little Pippi, the first book about which was published in the year the war ended - in 1945.

As a mother, Astrid Lindgren was keenly interested in the discussion of parenting methods. Lindgren was firmly convinced that the only sure way to educate is to listen to the child, respect and cherish his feelings, appreciate his thoughts. To take into account his individual psychology and not to press, but to liberate, to help express himself.

What seems obvious, beautiful and correct in words is put into practice with great difficulty. A child who does not obey the rules and prohibitions? A child who needs to "steer" without shouting, spanking, spanking? Who should be reckoned with as an equal? Such a miracle Yudo will now plunge any adult into horror, and in the first half of the 20th century, Lindgren's beliefs were a rupture of the template, a challenge, a revolution.

So, the story of the mischievous Pippi, who settled in the "Chicken" villa, embodied new ideas for the upbringing of the younger generation.

In 1944, on the 10th birthday of her daughter, the future writer gave a homemade book about Pippi, and sent a copy of it to the well-known publishing house Bonniers. In the accompanying letter, Astrid referred to the philosopher, mathematician, future Nobel laureate in literature Bertrand Russell: "I read from Russell that the main feature of a child's psychology is his desire to be an adult or, more precisely, a thirst for power." And she added, referring to her own essay: "I hope you will not raise an alarm in the department for the protection of children."

The manuscript was rejected. One can only guess how fiercely Bonniers bit themselves on the elbows and other hard-to-reach places when the rejected writer suddenly began publishing book after book under the auspices of competitors, giving Raben & Sjogren worldwide fame and considerable profits. I think publishers who rejected Rowling's Harry Potter would understand them best.

Sometimes one gets the impression that any good children's book will certainly meet with fierce protest from adult readers. This, of course, is not true. And yet, when Sweden met Pippi in 1945, many parents could not see in the red-haired 9-year-old eccentric her hard work, independence, sense of responsibility for herself and others, disinterested friendly participation in the life of every person, caring, generosity and creative attitude to life, thanks to which Pippi knows how to turn any event into a game.

“When I grow up, I will sail the seas,” Tommy said firmly, “I will also become a sea robber like Peppy.
“Fine,” Peppy said. - Thunderstorm of the Caribbean - that's who you and I will be, Tommy. We will take away from everyone gold, jewelry, diamonds, arrange a cache in some grotto on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean, hide all our treasures there, and guard our grotto will be three skeletons, which we will put at the entrance. We will also hang out a black flag with the image of a skull and two crossed bones and every day we will sing "Fifteen people and a dead man's box", so loudly that we will be heard on both shores of the Atlantic Ocean, and from our song all sailors will turn pale and wonder, shouldn't they immediately jump overboard to avoid our bloody revenge.
- And I? Annika asked plaintively. “I don’t want to become a sea robber. What am I going to do alone?
“You will still swim with us,” Peppy reassured her. “You will dust the piano in the wardroom.
The fire was extinguished.
“I guess it's time to go to bed,” Peppy said.
She lined the floor of the tent with spruce wood and covered it with several thick blankets.
- Do you want to lie down next to me in the tent? Peppy asked the horse. - Or do you prefer to spend the night under a tree? I can cover you with a blanket. You say you feel unwell every time you go to bed in a tent? Well, let it be your way, - said Peppy and patted the horse's rump in a friendly way. "

Adults were offended by the negative images of their peers in the fairy tale, who refused to understand Peppy, not noticing that they were exactly copying the reactions of these characters.

Meanwhile, the authoritative experts on children's literature Eva von Zweigberg and Greta Bulin (lindgrenologists like to refer to them), and after them critic Kaisa Lindsten and many others say: “Pippi embodies the childhood dream of breaking prohibitions and feeling her power. She is a way out of everyday life. and an authoritarian regime. "

Refusing to submit to an authoritarian regime, Pippi is at the same time the embodiment of justice in the broadest sense. Remember how the strongest girl in the world easily lifts and carries a horse in her arms? That's the same! Do you remember why?

"When they almost got there, Pippi suddenly jumped from the saddle, patted the horse on the sides and said:
“You drove us all for so long, and you must be tired. There cannot be such an order that some people drive all the time, while others drive all the time. "

Astrid Lindgren has always looked at the world through the eyes of a child. By mischief and mischief, her heroes try to fence themselves off from adult cruelty, indifference, and neglect. The kid does not have enough attention, and therefore the love of his parents ─ and Karlson appears. Pippi Longstocking strives to make her life and those around her as interesting as possible, and also always strives for justice ─ and no one can interfere with her in that, because she is the strongest and even the richest, absolutely independent. So Astrid Lindgren consoled and supported all children living under constant, destructive from the point of view of the writer, pressure.

Speaking of Pippi, one cannot but recall our Grigory Oster, his "Bad Advice" and other books that outrage adults and delight children.

How, from Astrid Lindgren's point of view, adults should react to children's pranks, is especially clear in her later books. For example, about Emil from Lennenberg. When the surrounding residents, tired of the rebellious boy's pranks, collect money and ask to send him to America, Emil's mother firmly answers: "Emil is a wonderful baby, and we love him as he is!"

True, the father does not understand the prankster and often locks him in the barn. But next to Emil there is another adult man, a "true father" who does not scold the boy and loves him unconditionally ─ this is the worker Alfred. Once again locked up, the swirling mischievous man softens the humiliation of punishment by carving figures out of wood ─ Alfred taught! Alfred supports Emil when, in impotent anger, he raises his fist to the sky and threatens that he will demolish the barn so that he will never again languish for good impulses in offensive captivity.

As a result, in the finale, it is Alfred who helps to fully manifest all the best in Emil.

Astrid Lindgren's contemporaries were outraged not only by her bold views on upbringing, but also by the stubbornness with which she insisted on the child's vulnerability to adults. In the 1950s, with the war dead and the world licking its wounds, an optimistic idyll reigned in Swedish children's literature. Lindgren paid tribute to this genre. For example, the book "We are all from Bullerby" is permeated with the sunny serenity of a happy childhood.

Peppy long stocking books in order

Astrid Lindgren Book Series: "Pippi Longstocking"

Pippi is a little red-haired freckled girl who lives alone in the "Chicken" villa in a small Swedish town with her animals: the monkey Mr. Nielson and a horse.

Peppy is independent and does whatever she wants. For example, she sleeps with her feet on the pillow and with her head under the covers, wears colorful stockings when she returns home, backs away because she doesn't want to turn around, rolls the dough right on the floor and keeps the horse on the veranda.

For this book, the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren was awarded the Andersen Prize, the highest international award for the best work of literature for children and youth.

If you look at the order of writing the books, Astrid Lindgren first wrote "Pippi settles in the villa" Chicken "" (1945), then in 1946 the book "Peppy goes on the road" saw the light, and, finally, "Pippi in the country of fun" ( 1948).

Translated in books by Lilianna Lungina. This translation is now considered a classic. The book was illustrated by Natalia Bugoslavskaya. She made a wonderful Pippi: a red-haired girl with protruding pigtails, very mischievous.

There are a lot of illustrations in the books (considering that the books are for school children). Coated paper. Glares.

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Pippi Longstocking

Pippi Longstocking on a German postage stamp

Peppilotta Victualia Rolgardin Krisminta Ephraimsdotter Longstocking (original name: Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump), better known as Peppy Longstocking - the central character in a series of books by the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren.

Name Pippi invented by Astrid Lindgren's daughter, Karin. In Swedish she is Pippi Longstocking. Translator Lilianna Lungina decided to change the name in translation Pippi on Peppy due to possible unpleasant semantic connotations of the original name for a native Russian speaker.

The character

Villa "Chicken" - the house that participated in the filming of the Swedish television series about Pippi

Peppy is a little red-haired freckled girl who lives alone in the "Chicken" villa in a small swedish town together with their animals: the monkey Mr. Nilson and the horse. Peppy is the daughter of Captain Ephraim Longstocking, who later became the leader of the black tribe. From her father, Peppy inherited fantastic physical strength, as well as a suitcase with gold , allowing her to exist comfortably. Peppy's mother died when she was still a baby. Peppy is sure that she became an angel and looks at her from the sky ( “My mom is an angel and my dad is a Negro king. Not every child has such noble parents ").

Pippi "adopts", but rather, comes up with a variety of customs from different countries and parts of the world: when walking backward, walk the streets upside down, "because your feet are hot when you walk on a volcano, and you can put on your hands in mittens."

Peppy's best friends are Tommy and Annika Söttergren, children of ordinary Swedish people. In Peppy's company, they often get into trouble and funny alterations, and sometimes - real adventures. Attempts by friends or adults to influence the disorderly Pippi do not lead to anything: she does not go to school, is illiterate, familiar and always composes fables. However, Peppy has a good heart and a good sense of humor.

Pippi Longstocking is one of Astrid Lindgren's most fantastic heroines. She is independent and does whatever she wants. For example, she sleeps with her feet on the pillow and with her head under the covers, wears colorful stockings when she returns home, backs away because she doesn't want to turn around, rolls the dough right on the floor and keeps the horse on the veranda.

She is incredibly strong and agile, even though she is only nine years old. She carries her own horse in her arms, defeats the famous circus strongman, scatters a whole company of hooligans aside, breaks off the horns of a ferocious bull, deftly exposes two police officers from her own house who came to her to forcibly take her to the orphanage, and instantly throws two onto the closet smashed the thieves who decided to rob her. However, there is no cruelty in Pippi's reprisals. She is extremely generous to her defeated enemies. She treats the disgraced police with freshly baked gingerbread in the shape of hearts. And embarrassed thieves who have worked out their intrusion into someone else's house by dancing with Pippi Twist all night, she generously rewards gold coins, this time honestly earned.

Peppy is not only extremely strong, she is also incredibly rich. It costs her nothing to buy for all the children in the city "a hundred kilos of candy" and a whole toy store, but she herself lives in an old dilapidated house, wears a single dress made of colorful patches, and the only pair of shoes her father bought her "for growth." ...

But the most amazing thing about Pippi is her bright and violent fantasy, which manifests itself in the games that she comes up with, and in amazing stories about different countries where she visited with her dad-captain, and in endless practical jokes, the victims of which become idiots. adults. Pippi takes any of his stories to the point of absurdity: a mischievous maid bites guests by the legs, a long-eared Chinese man hides under his ears in the rain, and a capricious child refuses to eat from May to October. Peppy gets very upset if someone says that she is lying, because lying is not good, she just sometimes forgets about it.

Pippi is a child's dream of strength and nobility, wealth and generosity, freedom and selflessness. But for some reason the adults Pippi do not understand. And the pharmacist, and the school teacher, and the director of the circus, and even the mother of Tommy and Annika are angry with her, teach, educate. Apparently, therefore, more than anything, Pippi does not want to grow up:

“Adults never have fun. They always have a lot of boring jobs, stupid dresses and cumin taxes. And they are also crammed with prejudice and all kinds of nonsense. They think it’s a terrible misfortune if you put a knife in your mouth while eating, and so on. ”

But "Who said that you need to become an adult?" No one can force Peppy to do what she doesn't want!

The books about Pippi Longstocking are full of optimism and an unchanging belief in the very best.

The Tale of Peppi

• Peppy is going to go (1946)
• Peppy in the Land of Fun (1948)
• Pippi Longstocking arranges the Christmas tree (1979)

Screen adaptations

• Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump - Sweden, 1969) - TV series Olle Hellboma ... The "Swedish" version of the television series is 13 episodes, the FRG version is 21 episodes. Starring - Inger Nilsson ... Since 2004, the TV series has been shown in the “German” version on the Kultura channel. Cinema version - 4 films (released 1969, 1970). Two films - "Pippi Longstocking" and "Pippi in the country of Taka-Tuka" were shown at the Soviet box office.
• Pippi Longstocking ( USSR , 1984) is a two-part television feature film.
• The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking - USA, Sweden, 1988)
• Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Longstocking - Sweden, Germany, Canada, 1997) - cartoon
• Pippi Longstocking (Canada, 1997-1999) - animated series
• "Pippi Longstocking" - filmstrip (USSR, 1971)

Notes

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• Cartoon characters
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• Superpowered characters

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