Die unsterbliche Eintagsfliege: Aphorismen, Fabeln und andere Frechheiten

Title

en_US Die unsterbliche Eintagsfliege: Aphorismen, Fabeln und andere Frechheiten

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Werner Ehrenforth

Creator

en_US Ehrenforth, Werner

Contributor

en_US Schleusing, Thomas

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:53Z

en_US 2008-09

en_US 1984

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 1984

Abstract

en_US Werner Ehrenforth (1939-2002) worked at several different employments in his life in the DDR. Since the end of the 1950's he wrote especially aphorisms but also short stories, poems, and fables. The 90 pages here are predominantly sarcastic aphorisms in which the author criticizes the socialist government and society of the DDR. The book also includes twelve prose fables. Neither the aphorisms nor the fables are titled. The actors in the fables are mostly animals, but there are unusual animals here: hamsters, sharks, hering, and chameleons. The moral is usually at the end and usually has to do with justice, freedom, and human dignity. A favorite here is this fable: A dog hunted a rabbit. A hamster noticed and said That is the way it is. One is exercising a sport, and the other is running for his life (17). The wild cat to the house cat: In contrast to you, we fulfill our duty every day. The house cat answers: It is a higher step in freedom to be able to fulfill one's right (19). I cannot hurt a fly, the swallow asserts. What about those you eat? In this case I am destroying vermin (66). I have had a lot of trips, the rock asserts. But someone had to throw you up! Yes, but the trip down was all my doing (68). A fishing bird asks the eel in his beak: What do you do when you experience injustice? The eel says nothing. That means that you increase the injustice by that portion of justice that you do not exercise (87). Thus the victimizer puts the blame on the victim. The lion asks the dove to be defense minister. The wolf claims that they will lose all their wars. The lion answers: We cannot lose the war that we have not begone (88). Other fables are on 18, 20, 44, 45, 67, 86, and 89.

Identifier

en_US 7835 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83088

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Mitteldeutscher Verlag

en_US Halle

Subject

en_US PT2665.H74 U5 1984

en_US Werner Ehrenforth

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole