Ein Ding mag noch so närrisch sein...Fabeln und Erzählungen
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Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott
Becker, Karl Wolfgang
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1984
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Here, 23 years after finding a second edition, I have found a first edition of this small book (3¾" x 6"). The only changes I can note come on the colophon page after the T of C on 117-18. This page mentions the 100 numbered copies including a signed original work by Günter Hofmann. It also refers to copies bound in leather. Several other technical data have changed. As I wrote about that copy, there are forty-one stories here. I have seen most of these texts in either Alverdes or the 1956 Aufbau edition. New to me in this book are "Der betrübte Witwer" (56); "Cotill" (61); "Der Lügner" (65); "Hanns Nord" (73); "Der Polyhistor" (79); "Der junge Krebs und der Seemuschel" (94); "Der Tod der Fliege und der Mücke" (97); "Der Leichtsinn" (98); and especially "Der grüne Esel" (37). From the latter comes the title, which is worth quoting even more fully: "Ein Ding mag noch so närrisch sein,/es sei nur neu: so nimmt's den Pöbel ein." The full-page pen-and-ink illustrations lose something by being so small. I find those I can recognize engaging, e.g., "Der Polyhistor" (77). I enjoyed making my way through the new fables.
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