Die unsterbliche Eintagsfliege: Aphorismen, Fabeln und andere Frechheiten
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Ehrenforth, Werner
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1984
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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.
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Mitteldeutscher Verlag
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7835 (Access ID)