Fabeln

Title

en_US Fabeln

en_US Edition Deutsche Hausbuecher

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Herausgegeben von Almut Gaugler

Creator

en_US Gaugler, Almut

Contributor

en_US Grandville, J.J.

Date

2016-01-25T19:29:15Z

en_US 2001-07

en_US 1995

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:29:15Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US This is an excellent anthology of German fable. I have read the first one-third, and find it delightful. The fables are far more accessible than I would have thought. Let me mention some of my favorites from this section. Boner's Der Treffliche Saenger (9) presents a singer who thinks he is excellent. He brings a woman to tears and asks her why. She answers that he reminds her of her dear dead ass! In Knonau's Die Kuh und der Fuchs each character wishes the other what she herself really wants (45). Gellert's Der Guetige Besuch is my old-time favorite about the visitor to a writer who asks how he can stand to be alone so much (77). The poet answers that he had never been so alone as he has been since his visitor arrived! Geraechter Undank on the same page tells of the cuckoo who wants to hear what people are saying about him. When he hears the answer Nothing, he promises to get revenge on their ingratitude by speaking eternally about himself. I find Lichtwer particularly strong with fables like Die Beraubte Fabel (84) and Wer Sich Entschuldigt, Klagt Sich An (93). Gleim turns out to be heavily Aesopic in his fables. The stag who sees himself in the water escapes in Gleim's version (98). The Grandville illustrations, made for La Fontaine's fables, do not always fit perfectly the German fables with which they are matched here. Thus Grandville's ass carrying a religious image illustrates Gellert's story of a green ass who was the talk of the town for one day (60). Grandville's rich ass plundered by robbers serves as the image for Lichtwer's ass who finds one devoted follower who thinks that his voice is lovely (83). Buch-Nr. 032/02476 0.

Identifier

en_US 5183 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80754

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Bertelsmann Club GmbH

en_US Guetersloh

Subject

en_US PT1356.F33 1995

en_US Collection

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole