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Title
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Die treulose Füchsin: Eine Tierfabel aus dem 13. Jahrhundert mit zeitgenössischen Miniaturen
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Band #5 der Edition Herder
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Language note: German
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Original language: spa
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Erste Auflage
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Ramón Llull, Übertragen von Joseph Solzbacher
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Creator
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Llull, Ramon
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Date
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2016-01-22T21:18:03Z
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2014-07
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1992
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Date Available
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2016-01-22T21:18:03Z
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Date Issued
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1992
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Abstract
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This small and beautiful book by Herder is derived from a Herder edition of 1953 which combined Joseph Solzbacher's translation with pictures by Ludwig Maria Beck. This edition, also by Herder, recognizes that edition but adds colored images taken from bestiaries of the 1200's. As I wrote about that book, this is really a compilation of fables along one narrative, roughly like The Roman of Renard. The fox does her best to compete in the assembly of larger, stronger animals. I have read the first several sections: The Choice of a King; Bull and Steed Leave the King's Court; and The King's Counselors. The story goes through nineteen such chapters. Because the images are from bestiaries, they present animals rather than scenes from fable stories. I did a little research on Llull's original work, which seems to have been The Book of the Beasts (Llibre de les bèsties), which is the seventh of the ten parts into which Felix or the Book of Wonders (1288-1289) is divided. It represents a serious reflection upon politics in the form of a fable. Llull sets up a complex plot, full of nuances, in which we can follow the machinations of Na Renard, the vixen, in her aim of achieving dominance and of exercising power from behind the scenes. The animals in the fable, which Llull took from oriental sources and from the French Roman de Renard, are a pretext for depicting some of the more sinister facets of the human condition. From the start of the work the reader realizes that the protagonist will do anything in order to command: her intention is not to become rich but rather, to revel in the pleasure of ruling over everything. Na Renard ends up failing, the victim of her own boundless ambition, but her fall comes to pass only after many injustices and atrocities. At the end of the Book of the Beasts, we are told that Felix took the work to a royal court, so that the king might take care when it came to deciding whom to trust. It is highly possible that Llull wrote this chapter of Felix as a warning to the king of France, Philip IV, The Fair, with whom he had had political contact during the years when he was composing the work.
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Identifier
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9783451229350
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10415 (Access ID)
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Language
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ger
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Publisher
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Herder Freiburg
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Freiburg
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Subject
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PC3937.L6 A4 1992
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Ramón Llull
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole