Schweizer Fabeln nach Boner und von Pestalozzi

Title

en_US Schweizer Fabeln nach Boner und von Pestalozzi

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Bearbeitet und Herausgegeben von Dr. Jakob Szliska

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Teschemacher, Max

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:40Z

en_US 2012-09

en_US 1950?

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:40Z

Date Issued

en_US 1950

Abstract

en_US Here is another book in uniform format from Alfo. Like the several others, it has a canvas binding, a colored paper cover with a colored illustration at the center, and 32 pages. Here a T of C at the beginning announces fourteen fables. Each fable has a two-page spread. On the left page is a fable either after Boner or from Pestalozzi, with a separate, highlighted moral at the end. I am delighted to see a book using six of Boner's fables. They are taken from an 1810 book -- an anthology perhaps? -- and do not seem very close to the fables I studied recently. They all, I believe, have to do somehow with cruelty and thanklessness. When the dog drags the lamb into court, his punishment is death, which of course the dog's friends and witnesses carry out (4). The wolf, the vulture, and the harrier consume the poor lamb. The crow talks the eagle into dropping the snail on a rock, and the lesson is that the snail would have survived the eagle had it not been for the crow (8). The illustration here is typical, with a good colored picture balanced by a black-and-white drawing above of the snail moving along in peace and, below, of the crow eating the snail alone, as the eagle approaches in the background. Pestalozzi's fables are sometimes new to me, as when sheep who experience rich pastures with predators ask their shepherd to lead them rather to the more barren pastures without the predators (46). His fables sometimes have long and overly explanatory morals, as for Der Löwe und der Hund (24). Pestalozzi also offers traditional fables like TMCM (26); Cold and Warm from One Mouth (28); and OR (30). The country mouse is in a strange position in the illustration for TMCM. Cold and Warm is done with a human Waldmann rather than a Satyr. The black-and-white designs above the colored pictures often give a before and after for the central scene pictured in color.

Identifier

en_US 8882 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84093

Publisher

en_US Alfo Kunstdruck Verlag

en_US Kaiserslautern, Germany

Subject

en_US PZ34.2.S95Sch 1950

en_US Boner, Pestalozzi

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole