Indische Fabeln

Title

en_US Indische Fabeln

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Original language: eng

en_US Selvarajan Yesudian; Aus dem Englischen übertragen von Trudy Steiner

Creator

en_US Yesudian, Selvarajan See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Yesudian, Selvarajan

Date

2016-01-25T19:55:00Z

en_US 2001-07

en_US 1962

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:55:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 1962

Abstract

en_US 128 pages. There is a T of C at the end listing fifty-seven stories. I recognize many of the early stories in this book, often as parallels to well known Aesopic fables. Thus the first presents two friends who encounter a tiger where the Aesopic fable has them meet a bear (11). Mixed in with these clear fables are a number of wisdom stories which follow the pattern of finding a small cause that creates a big effect. A swimming monk finds a rat gnawing on his towel. Dealing with it brings him eventually a home and family and the usual cares of life, as his teacher learns years and years later (12). Elephants who threaten to trample mice go elsewhere and promise never to hurt mice again. Soon one of them is caught, and the mice come and gnaw away the ropes with which he is tied up (26). Amid these stories are others that it would be hard to call fables in the most specific sense, like Die Geburt des Opiums (30) or Die Böse Schlange that lives in a young man's stomach (34). Yesudian's designs present the scene but seem not meant to add anything further.

Identifier

en_US 6525 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81848

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US J. Fink Verlag

en_US Stuttgart

Subject

en_US GR305.Y47 1962 See all items with this value

en_US India See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole