Fabeln der Orientalischen Völker

Title

en_US Fabeln der Orientalischen Völker

en_US Band 8

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 Kühnel, Horst

Date

2016-01-25T20:21:01Z

en_US 2012-09

en_US 1950?

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:21:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 1950

Abstract

en_US This book is uniform in series with several others I have but they seem to have different bibliographical data, including publisher: Alfo Kunstdruck Verlag in Kaiserslautern. This book has the same canvas binding and the same striped cover format with a picture at the center. Like them, it has 32 pages. There is a beginning T of C with titles for the fourteen fables. Sources are given on the book's last page: Hitopadesa, midrash of Qoheleth, KD, Lokman, and Saadi. The color work for the fables here is simple and pleasing. Each fable's text is on the left-hand page with a colored illustration on the right-hand page. Above and below the colored illustration are engaging and even humorous sketches of different phases of the fable. New to me and delightful is Krähe und Flamingo (6). Familiar Panchatantra fables include Löwe und Hase (4) and TT (16). Lokman's fables are standard Aesopic tales. Here a Black, named Ein Mohr, tries to make himself white with snow (20). The moral: an evil person can seduce a good one, but a good person cannot change an evil person. Vom Leichtsinnigen Affen (10) tells the story of the lower part of his body of an ape who removed a wedge from freshly divided wood. The illustration interprets this expression more broadly than the text would demand, I believe. Do not miss the sketch below of the dead ape being carried away by weeping Red Cross apes. The story of the lion, cat, and mouse (12) illustrates well that the servant should not remove the issues that bother his master. For the cat kept the mane-eating mouse away from the lion; once the mouse died, the lion let the cat die too. Both of Saadi's stories condemn the pursuit of wealth.

Identifier

en_US 8756 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83970

Publisher

en_US Offsetdruckerei und Verlag Klinke & Co., GMBH

en_US Saarbrücken, Germany

Subject

en_US PZ34.2.S95Fbn 1950

en_US Oriental

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole