Das heiligste Tier: Ein elysisches Fabelbuch

Title

en_US Das heiligste Tier: Ein elysisches Fabelbuch

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Karl Gjellerup

Creator

en_US Gjellerup, Karl See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Hartmann, Paul

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:58Z

en_US 1999-05

en_US 1919

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:58Z

Date Issued

en_US 1919

Abstract

en_US My impression is that this is not a fable book as I have known fable books. It reads more like an extended fantasy, perhaps on the order of Tolkien or C.S. Lewis. One story here leads into another as animals meet with one another and relate their experiences. Gjellerup was born in Denmark in 1857, son of a Lutheran pastor. He was heavily attracted to Darwinism and then to Buddhism. He settled in Dresden and wrote in German. In 1917 he won the Nobel prize for literature. Wikipedia summarizes the present work this way: 'Das heiligste Tier' (1919, i.e. The holiest animal) was Gjellerup's last work. Having elements of self-parody, it is regarded his only attempt of humour. It is a peculiar mythological satire in which animals arrive at their own Elysium after death. These include the snake that killed Cleopatra, Odysseus' dog Argos, Wisvamitra (the holy cow of India), the donkey of Jesus and the horses of various historical commanders in field. The assembly select, after discussion, Buddha's horse Kantaka as the holiest of animals, but it has left without a trace to follow its master to nirvana. The work is divided into five books, and there are six black-and-white illustrations by Paul Hartmann. Ex libris Werner Kulz.

Identifier

en_US 7339 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82610

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Verlag Quelle & Meyer

en_US Leipzig

Subject

en_US PT8128 .H4 1919 See all items with this value

en_US Buddhist See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole