Der Spiegel

Title

en_US Der Spiegel

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US 1. Auflage

Various; translated by Lotte Berg

Creator

en_US Berg, Various See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Olac, Vasile

Date

2019-01-28T20:29:51Z

2018-10

en_US 1979

Date Available

2019-01-28T20:29:51Z

Date Issued

en_US 1979

Abstract

en_US This children's book offers ten Romanian fabulists with from one to seven offerings each. The poetic texts are accompanied by pleasant cartoon-like brown line drawings. A particular enhancement in this book is the foldouts, e.g. 18-20, 32-34. The best represented author is Grigore Alexandrescu with seven fables. I sampled three: "Der Mäuserich und der Kater" (9) is a typical fable in which the cat declares himself a vegetarian on his way to the monastery. He is invited into the mouse community where he devours one mouse after another. "Der Hofhund und das Hündchen" (28) is also typical. Noble dog and ox talk about enlightened equality, but then despise an ordinary dog who happens by. "Man fordert gerne Gleichheit, doch Gleichheit mit den Grossen." "Die Spiegel" – notice the plural, different from the book's singular title – presents the story of a land without any kind of mirrors, until a shipwreck sends many mirrors up on the shore. Before ugliness was considered beautiful, and people told ugly folks that they were pretty. Now not everyone was pleased with what he saw in the mirror. So they destroyed most of them. But still the pretty serve the truth by showing a monster his ugliness in a mirror. Alecu Donici's "Entstehung der Fabel" (58) plays off of Florian's fable of truth and fable. In this case, Truth confronts the emperor naked and is thrown out; then she clothes herself and speaks softly -- and changes his mind about several things. So fable was born. George Topirceanu offers "Der verkleidete Löwe" (84). This lion wears an ass' skin through one of the foldouts (84-88) to see if the wolf-nobility are keeping the peace among the ruminant population. He is attacked by a couple of wolves, holding pistols, if we are to believe the illustration. He roars back at them, and the wolves recognize that voice. "Sorry, lord, but you really did look all too much like a real authentic ass."

Identifier

en_US 11445 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/121221

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Kriterion

en_US Bucharest, Romania

Subject

en_US PZ34.2 .S65 1979 See all items with this value

Romanian See all items with this value