Item
Neue Fabeln
- Title
- en_US Neue Fabeln
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: German
- en_US Friedrich Blumberger
- Creator
- en_US Blumberger, Friedrich See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:05:04Z
- en_US 1995-07
- en_US 1930?
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:05:04Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1930
- Abstract
- en_US Blumberger was a teacher and school principal. This book contains a mix of literary genres. Perhaps eleven of the thirty offerings are fables. The remaining nineteen are parables and other narratives, often involving animals and offering a moral at their end. The fables criticize human weaknesses like vanity, stupidity, thoughtlessness, and laziness. The fables address everyday life of individual human beings; they do not address social and political issues. In Das Licht (1), a cat hates light and is proud to raise a dust-cloud around herself against the light of the sun. In answer to her boast of victory, a finch sitting on a nearby branch declares You are in the wrong. The rest of us can see as clearly as before. Your dust affects you, not the sun whom you oppose. In Der Esel als Gärtner (4), the lion appoints the ass as his gardener but then has to face the consequences when his family comes to enjoy the garden and finds it instead a field full of thorns! In Der Fuchs und die Gänse (4-5), the wolf tells the fox that his stalking of geese today is useless since they have noticed him and are making noise. Rather, I am happy that they make noise. It makes my choice easier. The biggest geese make the most noise. A particularly apt fable is Eulenweisheit (19-21) with its moral: der in der Stille schaffende Geist ist es, der zur Weisheit führt.
- Identifier
- en_US 7365 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US ger
- Publisher
- en_US Verlag Albert Ahn
- en_US Berlin, Germany
- Subject
- en_US PT1356.B58 1930 See all items with this value
- en_US Friedrich Blumberger See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books