Das Hausbuch der fabelhaften Fabeln

Title

en_US Das Hausbuch der fabelhaften Fabeln

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US First edition

en_US Pedro Zimmermann

Creator

en_US Zimmermann, Pedro See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Sowa, Michael

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:53Z

en_US 1993-08

en_US 1989

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 1989

Abstract

en_US I really like this book! The art (on both sides of inserted pages) is delightful. It puts animals into human settings, as on the cover where a pig dives off of a diving board into a pond. Another haunting image faces 161: a tree in the middle of the ocean. The book forms an outstanding example of one-to-a-page stimulating, wiseacre fables. As the Nachwort (especially 197) explains, this edition favors prose, the ironic, and the non-didactic. Zimmermann finds that Phaedrus began the process of making the Aesopic fable pedagogical and literary. He reworks all the Aesop, Phaedrus, Babrius, Romulus, and Steinhöwel that he presents. There is no LaFontaine in this book! If the fable on 41 is from Babrius, it is new to me! Pestalozzi's The Old Bear on the Fir Tree (91) is fine. Heine's The Dog with the Master's Meat (131) is another great fable. Typical of this book's challenge are Schopenhauer's Die Stachelschweine (153), Brecht's Die Hilflose Knabe (165), and Schnurre's Gehorsam (189). Anouilh's contribution (133) keeps the same tone, but it is Zimmermann that calls this fox a Jesuit. At last Krylov's The Swan, the Pike, and the Crab (169) makes sense to me: these three could have pulled the cart, but they went in different directions. Dario Fo's Obszöne Fabel (187) is something else!

Identifier

en_US 325100140X

en_US 1860 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77426

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Haffmans Verlag

en_US Zurich

Subject

en_US PN985.H35 1989 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