Vom klugen Esel und andere Tierfabeln

Title

en_US Vom klugen Esel und andere Tierfabeln

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 Original language: cze

en_US Ins Deutsche übertragen von Marika Vanickova

Creator

en_US Vanic?kova,́ Marika

Contributor

en_US Janeček, Ota

Date

2016-01-25T19:49:38Z

en_US 2001-07

en_US 1972

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:49:38Z

Date Issued

en_US 1972

Abstract

en_US This is a curious large-format book that I found on two separate excursions, one to visit an old friend in Paderborn and the other with a school excursion from Heidelberg to Trier. There are two TC's at the back covering the same 207 pages. One reports consecutively on ten evenings of story telling. The other catalogues the stories told by each story-teller, e.g., stories told by the dog Rex about the wolf and fox, or stories told by Peter the horse about the jackal. It seems that each group has one story from each of the ten animals. The early stories are as much folktale as fable, with a heavy emphasis on aetiological stories. New to me is the story of the fox talking the rabbit into fishing with his then-long tail. In fact, he places the rabbit right in front of the turtle's hole. The turtle grabs so hard on the rabbit's tail that the fox needs to pull with the rabbit's ears to keep him from going under. So the rabbit loses almost all of his tail and ends up with very long ears (15). There are occasional line-drawings along the way and perhaps one full-page colored illustration for each of the ten groupings. They are whimsical, primitive, playful. Typical of them may be TT on 101. Perhaps the strongest of them shows the ape riding on the turtle's back and learning that he is to sacrifice his heart for the turtle's wife (183). Of course, he will tell the turtle that he has not brought his heart along and that they need to return to get it. Reflection on the apportioning of various stories to various speakers here would be fascinating. I would love to spend more time with this book! I was disturbed by the typo early in the first set of stories: Und Peter Vegann zu erzählen (14).

Identifier

en_US 5853 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81336

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Artia

en_US Prague

Subject

en_US PZ34.2.V66 1972

en_US Collection

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole