Fabelhafte Tiergeschichten
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Walbrecker, Dirk
Wilkoń, Józef
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1993
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This is a pleasing, well-made book. The T of C at the end lists twenty-seven stories. The illustrations range from full two-page spreads to single-pages to parts of pages. Their style is playful, ironic, satiric, even subtle. Do not miss the illustration of the stag, the rabbit and the ass on 20; the bunny has established that he has a rack like the stag. The ass ends up agreeing with the bunny that all three are alike. The fables are well-told representatives of traditional Aesopic stories. There are some touches in the telling of the stories that are new to me. When the wolf demands three honest answers and gets them, he leaves the lamb alone. The lamb goes about sayng It is worth it to tell the truth in the face of your bitterest enemy (8). The cormorant (12) does not eat the transported fish on a mountain plateau, but rather carries them to his personal pond and eats them there when he gets hungry. There is a nice bit of Gay between the dog and the wolf; the wolf ends up saying that an open enemy like a wolf is bad enough, but a false friend--like a man--is much worse (32). Dirk Walbrecker has a good fable about putting people in the zoo and letting the animals visit them on weekends (36). I had feared that this was not a book of fables at all. What a lovely surprise to find it a genial, alert fable book!
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Patmos Verlag
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5260 (Access ID)