Tierisch Heiter, Tierisch Ernst

Title

en_US Tierisch Heiter, Tierisch Ernst

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:28Z

en_US 2014-07

en_US 1981

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:28Z

Date Issued

en_US 1981

Abstract

en_US Like its partner from 1980, Poetisches Tierleben, this little book, about 3 x 4, gives good testimony to fable's place in the literature of animals, humorous and serious. It is one of those little books that appear on counters of bookstores and used book shops. And so it appeared at Quadrat on my first afternoon in Mannheim on this trip. The cover illustration of two animals with several in the background is Grandville's work. The dozen or so illustrations are from Grandville, as is acknowledged early in the book. There are also several advertisements for Bisolvomycin (e.g., 56), which claims to help people's breathing. As the T of C on 110-12 shows, there is a lovely mixture here of texts. The first poem is from Goethe. Silenced and imprisoned under ice, the little frogs promised that if they ever got free they would sing like nightingales. The ice thawed, the frogs crept back onto land, and croaked as they have always done. Nice touch! Claudius has a nice little fable (61) about the fox, with a rooster in his mouth, meeting a bear early one morning and greeting him Gnäd'ger Herr, saying he has brought him the rooster. Who says I am gnädig? I saw your tooth, and it is long and sharp. In this little volume, Gellert rather than Lessing is called on for his similar Der Tanzbär (57-58) an example of a strong traditional fable. One Euro can still buy something worthwhile!

Identifier

en_US 10210 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76198

Publisher

en_US Dr. Karl Thomae

en_US Biberach an der Riss

Subject

en_US Animal stories See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole