Der Blick vom Turm: Fabeln von Günther Anders

Title

en_US Der Blick vom Turm: Fabeln von Günther Anders

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Dritte Auflage

en_US Günther Anders (Günther Stern)

Creator

en_US Anders, Günther See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Weber, Andreas Paul

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:29Z

en_US 1998-08

en_US 1988

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 1968

Abstract

en_US Anders was born as Günther Stern in 1902. This book of 104 pages has ninety-six fables a la Anders, with twelve black-and-white illustrations from lithographs by Weber. Weber is the right illustrator for Anders. His pictures are often perfect, as in the case of Kainz und das P.P. Publikum (12). Besides traditional fables, there are all sorts of genres here: didactic narratives, satires, aphorisms, and mixed prose forms. Anders composed these pieces between 1932 and 1968. The titles often give a clue as to the perenniel problems of those difficult times: freedom, truth, progress, betrayal, solidarity, common sense, humanity, faithlessness, and grounds for war. Characters in these fables a la Anders include animals, men, figures from Greek mythology, and everyday objects like a can, a pebble, coal, or a diamond. I read these fables in the summer of '07 in Mannheim and found them very good if often a step or two away from Aesop. In the very first fable, Der Blick vom Turm (7), a woman looks down and sees her son run over in the street. She refuses to go down. Down there I would be in despair! Distance gives her the ability to resist tragic reality. In the second story, a mosquito says to a rooster about the lion He buzzes strangely. The rooster responds Buzz? He cackles, but he cackles strangely. Everyone translates experience into his or her own terms. Auch er (13) tells of one of the captives in the cave of Plato's Republic who believed he was bitten by the shadow of a mouse. He broke free into reality. This was not a noble path to truth, but what counts is whether or not one arrives. Anders' last fable gives a sense of how he sees Aesop working. For him, Aesop starts not with an insight but with a picture. The picture betrays that it means something, but it never -- at least not immediately and not to me -- reveals what it means. Aesop then sets himself to the task of figuring out and translating what it means. The allegorist turns an insight into a picture. Aesop transforms a picture into an insight. I left notes in my copy of the original publication of 1968 from Büchergilde Gutenberg.

Identifier

en_US 9783406003363

en_US 6425 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81749

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Verlag C.H. Beck

en_US Munich

Subject

en_US PT2601.N34 B55 1988 See all items with this value

en_US Günther Anders See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole