Also Sprach der Marabu: Neue Fabeln

Title

en_US Also Sprach der Marabu: Neue 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 Erste Auflage

en_US Kurt Kauter

Creator

en_US Rocafuerte, José Maria See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Härtel, Karl-Jürgen

en_US Nitzschke, Helmut (epilogue)

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:30Z

en_US 1998-08

en_US 1973

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:30Z

Date Issued

en_US 1973

Abstract

en_US There may have been an earlier printing of this book in 1965, though I find no trace of it at Choosebooks.com in Germany, which offers copies of a 1975 second, a 1981 third, and a 1984 fourth edition. Kurt Kauter was a communist writer with themes of peace and international friendship. This little (4½ x 7¼) book has 147 pages of text frequently illustrated, an epilogue, and a T of C. I read the first five fables and find them solidly in the tradition of Aesop, Phaedrus, La Fontaine, and Lessing. In the first fable, the Marabu finds all the animals right and wrong when each claims to be the greatest. Each of you is greatest for himself. And it would be bad for the future of life if each of you did not wish to become more perfect (7). A churchmouse pictures God as everything that the mouse is not: silky fur, pointy ears, green eyes, and an impressive moustache. The mouse meets a cat on the top altar step and wonders if she is God. The question gets an answer when the mouse is eaten (11). In Selbstkritik (13), the polar bear and the grizzly bear forgive each other and belittle each other's faults, only to attack the bamboo bear for eating some shoots! The fables tend to criticize standard human weaknesses and societal mores and to promote Kauter's themes of peace and international friendship. The caricature-like illustrations tend to simple geometric forms, especially rectangles.

Identifier

en_US 6095 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81502

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Greifenverlag zu Rudolstadt

en_US Rudolstadt

Subject

en_US PT2678.O213 A4 1973 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole