Der reiche Mann und der Schuster: Eine Fabel des Aesop

Title

en_US Der reiche Mann und der Schuster: Eine Fabel des Aesop

en_US Ein Nord-Süd Bilderbuch

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Erzählt und illustriert von Bernadette

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Bernadette

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:21Z

en_US 2006-08

en_US 2002

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:21Z

Date Issued

en_US 2002

Abstract

en_US Here is the German version of The Rich Man and the Shoemaker: A Fable by La Fontaine, published in the same year by the same publisher. It is curious that the same story is described here as a fable of Aesop, whereas in English it was a fable of La Fontaine. And Bernadette here is Bernadette Watts there. Let me repeat some comments from that edition. I am delighted to see that Bernadette Watts is continuing to illustrate fables. She had done so for at least three Aesopic fables earlier: The Wind and the Sun, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, and The Lion and the Mouse. I noted then that the telling here is not true to La Fontaine's fine fable. Not only are fine little details left out, like the shoemaker's reference to the feast days on which he may not work, but bigger things are changed too. For example, the merchant here at first asks the shoemaker to stop singing. There is no such request anywhere in La Fontaine. In La Fontaine's version, the singing stops of its own accord as the shoemaker fixates in worry on his new treasure. In this version, the merchant has to try three times to give the shoemaker some gold. The latter, when he finally accepts it, digs into the frozen ground behind his home. I enjoy Watts' art. She sets the shoemaker into a very warm family-business setting here.

Identifier

en_US 9783314012457

en_US 6061 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81472

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Nord-Süd Verlag

en_US Gossau Zürich

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.W35 Re 2002 See all items with this value

en_US One See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole