Einhundert Fabeln: Von der Antike bus zur Gegenwart

Title

en_US Einhundert Fabeln: Von der Antike bus zur Gegenwart

en_US Hamburger Leseheft #118

Description

en_US Language note: German

en_US Bearbeitet von Karl Wilhelm Künz

Creator

en_US Künz, Karl Wilhelm See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:37Z

en_US 2007-07

en_US 2005

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:37Z

Date Issued

en_US 2005

Abstract

en_US The Hamburger Lesehefte Verlag has updated this tried and true text recently, and this is the 2005 version. I have an earlier version listed under 1950? What has changed? The title on the cover is now in white, rather than black. The back cover sports an ISBN number. The inside of the front cover supplies some bibliographical information, including the year of publication. Curiously, the Hamburger Lesehefte Verlag is no longer situated in Hamburg, but is rather in Husum. This volume has smaller outside margins. Though the book is of about the same length, it has been newly typeset, and the format now includes line numbers. I notice that Text #100/15 now has an author mentioned with the text. There is a three-page Nachwort at the end. It has the same excellent choice of texts. Let me include some of my comments from that earlier edition. The fables come from around the world but especially from Germany. I enjoyed trying five new fables. Poggio's #36 tells of a man who wanted to get out of the custom that, when one slaughters a pig in winter, he holds a feast for the whole town. He goes to an old man and asks him how to do it. The man answers Just claim tomorrow morning that your pig has been stolen. That night the old man steals the fellow's pig. The next morning, the robbed man comes to the old man and tells him that he has been robbed. The old man congratulates him on making the claim well. The more urgently the fellow tries to tell the truth, the more the old fellow congratulates him on lying well. Greed and lying punish themselves. Lessing's #58 asks what one should say to poets whose texts seem to fly way over the heads of most of their readers. Perhaps we should say what the nightingale once said to the lark: Do you fly so high in order not to be heard? Seidel's #77 presents the toad who looks at a mole hill and says proudly My, how huge the great wide world is! Etzel's #83 presents a gnat who is about to bite a stag when the stag takes off in a hurry. The gnat, proud to be so feared, pursues the stag but does not notice the lion behind him pursuing the stag too. When the stag finally is caught in the branches of the forest and the lion pounces on him, the gnat tells the lion that he has the gnat to thank for this booty. The lion does not even glance at him. The mighty know no gratefulness the gnat says, and promises never again to hunt a stag. In Kafka's #85, a mouse has run into walls and then complains about the walls coming together in a corner where there is a trap. Just change the direction in which you run says a cat and eats her. Do not miss the seventeen versions of GA in #100.

Identifier

en_US 9783872911179

en_US 6453 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81776

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Hamburger Lesehefte Verlag

en_US Husum, Germany

Subject

en_US PT1356.K86 2005 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop and others See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole