Fabeln von Charles Richet

Title

en_US Fabeln von Charles Richet

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Original language: fre

en_US In deutscher Nachdichtung von Armand Hoche und Rudolf Berger

Creator

en_US Berger, Rudolf

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:55Z

en_US 2009-07

en_US 1914

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:55Z

Date Issued

en_US 1914

Abstract

en_US The title-page continues Mit einem Briefe Sully Prud'hommes an Charles Richet. Shapiro mentions in passing in his prologue Nobel laureate physician Charles Richet's pacifistically inspired fables of the early twentieth [century] (The Fabulists French xiv). One of the first of these poems is Der Hirsch (9-10), a comment, as I believe, on the traditional fable in which the young deer asks its father why he is so timid. So it happens here. The son asks and, then, at the sound of the hunter's horn, runs away even faster than his father. The stag's reflection: Heroism is not the stag's calling. The dog has no feeling; the stag has no courage. No one becomes more than what he was created to be. Die Ameise und die Grille (40-42) has the two creatures die and go to heaven, to be rewarded with exactly what they did in life. The ant wants to complain about that. When the perspective moves out to the family in which the poem is being recited, the mother explains that work coming from a good heart is happiness, born from strength and joy, but is otherwise a thorn. The ant was wrong to store up for herself; the grasshopper had it right. We need to give what we have. Stork and fox (48) have given up all their old arguments and are now chatting in old age. Stork tells of the many peoples she has seen and even the immoral Babels she has known. The fox finally speaks up: But did this wonderland feed you well? Are the chickens there as sweet and tart as here? My, fable gets around! I did not know that we had a nobel laureate fabulist!

Identifier

en_US 7329 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82600

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Gebrüder Paetel (Dr. G. Paetel)

en_US Berlin, Germany

Subject

en_US PQ2387.R399 F3 1914

en_US Charles Richet

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole