Item
Schimpf und Ernst, Vol. 1
- Title
- en_US Schimpf und Ernst, Vol. 1
- en_US Alte erzähler, Vol. 1
- Description
- Johannes Pauli; edited by Johannes Bolte
- Creator
- en_US Pauli, Johannes See all items with this value
- Date
- 2023-09-20T15:17:13Z
- 2023-05
- en_US 1924
- Date Available
- 2023-09-20T15:17:13Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1924
- Abstract
- en_US Here is a huge and fascinating collection of stories. I take it that "Schimpf" means "Scherz" and thus Pauli offers a pleasant mixture of seriousness and comedy. So his commentators believe. Wikpedia quotes George Rollenhagen in his preface to Pauli's "Froschmäusler": "He did not desire to make people laugh without teaching them something; his book was like the old legends and sagas, full of fabulous happenings and incidents, but written so that in them, as in a comedy, there are combined with poetry and imagination the plain, unvarnished, bitter truths of life, worded so as to tell serious things in a jocular manner, with a laugh and a smile." The resulting work here includes the 693 stories told in the original 1522 version. Each is labeled as "Schimpf," "Ernst," or both The T of C at the end shows Pauli's 90 groupings. 418 pages. I find perhaps a dozen that either mention Aesop or narrate a standard fable. See #173, 174, 399, 425, 426, 431, 433, 447, 494, and 530. #604 and 605 are taken from the life of Aesop. This 1924 edition is beautifully done, including the cover illustration of a medieval illustration, based perhaps on woodblocks. Canvas binding. About 6¾" x 8." I am amazed to find this book for this price!
- Identifier
- en_US 13333 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Herbert Stubenrauch Verlagsbuchhandlung
- en_US Berlin
- Subject
- Various See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books