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Das große Lesebuch
Mit den Werkbeiträgen aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.
Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur.
Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK.
Immer noch steht Wilhelm Raabe im Schatten der anderen großen Autoren des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dabei schrieb schon Fontane in einem Brief, dass Raabe »absolut Nr. 1« wäre, wenn er »mehr Kritik«, also öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit hätte. Vor allem Raabes späte Prosa mit ihren Außenseitern und unzuverlässigen Erzählern lässt die brave Literatur des bürgerlichen Realismus weit hinter sich und verweist bereits auf die Moderne. Dieses Lesebuch breitet das gesamte Spektrum von Raabes Prosa aus und möchte Lust auf einige der grandiosesten Texte machen, die die deutsche Literatur überhaupt zu bieten hat.
Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur.
Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK.
Immer noch steht Wilhelm Raabe im Schatten der anderen großen Autoren des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dabei schrieb schon Fontane in einem Brief, dass Raabe »absolut Nr. 1« wäre, wenn er »mehr Kritik«, also öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit hätte. Vor allem Raabes späte Prosa mit ihren Außenseitern und unzuverlässigen Erzählern lässt die brave Literatur des bürgerlichen Realismus weit hinter sich und verweist bereits auf die Moderne. Dieses Lesebuch breitet das gesamte Spektrum von Raabes Prosa aus und möchte Lust auf einige der grandiosesten Texte machen, die die deutsche Literatur überhaupt zu bieten hat.
359 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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Wilhelm Busch
931 books47 followersHeinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch was an influential German caricaturist, painter, and poet who is famed for his satirical picture stories with rhymed texts.
After initially studying mechanical engineering and then art in Düsseldorf, Antwerp, and Munich, he turned to drawing caricatures. One of his first picture stories, Max and Moritz (published in 1865), was an immediate success and has achieved the status of a popular classic and perennial bestseller.
After initially studying mechanical engineering and then art in Düsseldorf, Antwerp, and Munich, he turned to drawing caricatures. One of his first picture stories, Max and Moritz (published in 1865), was an immediate success and has achieved the status of a popular classic and perennial bestseller.
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June 3, 2017The book contains Max and Moritz, Die Fromme Helene, Maler Klecksel, Kritik des Herzens and Eduards Traum, for the first two and Kritik there is also appended relevant excepts from a literature dictionary.
The first two pieces are what I would think of as typical of Busch's out put stories in verse built up around illustrations. In places you could follow the story just by looking at the pictures, these might be regarded as forerunners to comic books, but I've seen that said of other works on this site.
In both stories one might see rebellion and resistance, on the part of children or animals against the bourgeois world. Revolt however ends in death. Along the way however expect to see the imaginative use of fishing rods and violence of kind familiar from cartoons (noses seized with tongs, a man warmed up by having his stomach ironed etc). And while for the most part I don't much approve of baking children in an oven, grinding them up and feeding them to ducks it is hard to disagree with the baker's opinion Warum ist der Mensch so lecker?! (p73) Why indeed.
The literature dictionary argues that Kritik - a collection of short lyrics was not very successful in Busch's life time which leaves me wondering why it included in this selection. Answer there came none. Other I suppose than having one volume give an impression of Busch's range and tone which tends ultimately to the bleak, revolt and independence fail, the alternatives are limited and self satisfied. Helenne, having newly given birth has lost her husband and her lover, only alcohol is left (Die Flasche wartet mit Geduld...), plainly a sure way to a happy ending - as so many livers will testify.
With a squeeze this paperback fits into an overcoat pocket
The first two pieces are what I would think of as typical of Busch's out put stories in verse built up around illustrations. In places you could follow the story just by looking at the pictures, these might be regarded as forerunners to comic books, but I've seen that said of other works on this site.
In both stories one might see rebellion and resistance, on the part of children or animals against the bourgeois world. Revolt however ends in death. Along the way however expect to see the imaginative use of fishing rods and violence of kind familiar from cartoons (noses seized with tongs, a man warmed up by having his stomach ironed etc). And while for the most part I don't much approve of baking children in an oven, grinding them up and feeding them to ducks it is hard to disagree with the baker's opinion Warum ist der Mensch so lecker?! (p73) Why indeed.
The literature dictionary argues that Kritik - a collection of short lyrics was not very successful in Busch's life time which leaves me wondering why it included in this selection. Answer there came none. Other I suppose than having one volume give an impression of Busch's range and tone which tends ultimately to the bleak, revolt and independence fail, the alternatives are limited and self satisfied. Helenne, having newly given birth has lost her husband and her lover, only alcohol is left (Die Flasche wartet mit Geduld...), plainly a sure way to a happy ending - as so many livers will testify.
With a squeeze this paperback fits into an overcoat pocket
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