Fabeln von Charles Richet
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Berger, Rudolf
Hoche, Armand
Richet, Charles
Sully Prudhomme
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1914
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The title-page continues Mit einem Briefe Sully Prud'hommes an Charles Richet. Shapiro mentions in passing in his prologue Nobel laureate physician Charles Richet's pacifistically inspired fables of the early twentieth [century] (The Fabulists French xiv). One of the first of these poems is Der Hirsch (9-10), a comment, as I believe, on the traditional fable in which the young deer asks its father why he is so timid. So it happens here. The son asks and, then, at the sound of the hunter's horn, runs away even faster than his father. The stag's reflection: Heroism is not the stag's calling. The dog has no feeling; the stag has no courage. No one becomes more than what he was created to be. Die Ameise und die Grille (40-42) has the two creatures die and go to heaven, to be rewarded with exactly what they did in life. The ant wants to complain about that. When the perspective moves out to the family in which the poem is being recited, the mother explains that work coming from a good heart is happiness, born from strength and joy, but is otherwise a thorn. The ant was wrong to store up for herself; the grasshopper had it right. We need to give what we have. Stork and fox (48) have given up all their old arguments and are now chatting in old age. Stork tells of the many peoples she has seen and even the immoral Babels she has known. The fox finally speaks up: But did this wonderland feed you well? Are the chickens there as sweet and tart as here? My, fable gets around! I did not know that we had a nobel laureate fabulist!
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Gebrüder Paetel (Dr. G. Paetel)
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7329 (Access ID)