Tiere Klug wie Menschen

Title

en_US Tiere Klug wie Menschen

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Wilhelm Scharrelmann

Creator

en_US Scharrelmann, Wilhelm See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Dienst, Christine

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:10Z

en_US 2012-10

en_US 1946

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:10Z

Date Issued

en_US 1946

Abstract

en_US Here is a surprise to me. I was not aware of Wilhelm Scharrelmann's fables. From all I can gather, here are seventy-five to eighty original fables, most with an appropriate monochrome illustration. Fables are distributed one to a page, though several run on to a second or even a third page. The introduction is a clever complaint of animals against people for making the former into masks for the vices of the latter. My reading of some five or six of the fables shows them to be strong. One mouse, for example, at first rejects the pleas of another for food but then gives her the smaller of two portions -- to give herself peace of mind (17). Wolf and fox argue; the weaker cannot call the stronger to take responsibility for his violent actions (19). The lion asks the fox if all the creatures of the territory honor him. After several clever answers, it comes out that one does not. Who? The lioness (47). When a crow says Shame on you to a fox for killing a swan, the fox proclaims that he saves many from their coming pains (50). A wolf, recently frightened away from the shepherd's flock, sees the shepherd caring for a sheep wounded in his attack. Whatever it looks like, he is doing it for his own advantage (63).

Identifier

en_US 8779 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83991

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US C. Bertelsmann Verlag

en_US Gütersloh

Subject

en_US PT2638.A72 T5 1946 See all items with this value

en_US Wilhelm Scharrelmann See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole