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Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Thalheim, Hans Günther
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1985
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This booklet has occasioned the most systematic study I have done of Lessing's fables, which I enjoy. It may be the only book I have of Lessing that even tries to be complete. It contains fifteen fables in verse ( Reimfabeln ), which are often little more than good jokes, e.g., Das Muster der Ehen (10), Faustin (12), Die eheliche Liebe (12), Die Brille (24), and Nix Bodenstrom (26). The first verse fable, Der Sperling und die Feldmaus (7), may be the best. Der Eremit (16) is eight pages long! Among the strongest prose fables in Book I are III, IV, VI, VIII, IX, XI, XII, XV, XX, XXI, XXVI, XXVIII, and XXX. In the second book, XIII, XV, and XVI seem to be the strongest fables, and in the third III, IV, XVI-XXII, and XXIII. I would love to study the correlation between Lessing's fables and his fable theory!
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Röderberg-Verlag
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2141 (Access ID)