Amoralische Fabeln

Title

en_US Amoralische Fabeln

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Christoph Bauer

Creator

en_US Bauer, Christoph See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:05:03Z

en_US 2007-08

en_US 1993

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:05:03Z

Date Issued

en_US 1993

Abstract

en_US This is an unusual book. Almost square with sides of about 7½, it presents some eighteen stories in 215 pages. I read the first. It is a good study of two unhappy relationships, an unexciting relationship between a crocodile that loves and a guinea pig that does not love passionately in return. Soon enough the guinea pig does fall in love with a rakish hamster with no depth or morals. The crocodile tracks them on a lascivious evening together and interrupts their love-making, only to break into tears. The two passionate lovers split up soon anyway, and the two friends return to watching TV together. The back cover lays out author Bauer's philosophy. He wants to put dear animals into the midst of our reality, to let hardcore results emerge. Aesop and La Fontaine would roll over in their graves, he writes. Relationships are a frequent theme, he writes, since partners are for many the only source of meaning. He wants to investigate relationships not in terms of tenderness and adventure, but as mutual stapler-strangleholds. The first story carries out that philosophy. The title here seems to me metaphorical. And I am not so sure that Aesop and La Fontaine would not recognize what is going on here. One might even hazard that they got deeper into the mystery of it all than Bauer does.

Identifier

en_US 9783856471101

en_US 7359 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82629

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Verena Stettler im Eco-Verlag

en_US Zurich

Subject

en_US PT2662.A82 A46 1993 See all items with this value

en_US Christoph Bauer See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole