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Ebner-Eschenbach,
Marie von |
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CRAMBAMBULO |
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„Krambambuli“
The heartrending story of the faithful hunting dog Krambambuli who
suffers by a conflict between his two masters, the former, a poacher,
and the new, a forester. To whom Krambambuli will be loyal? This famous
novella by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach is told with so much fondness of
animals, expertness, particularization and sympathetic description of
the main person’s (that is Krambambuli’s) inner life, that
since it has been published first, readers feel enthusiastic about it
again and again.
In a pub, the hunter meets a tramp
called ‚the Yellow’, who has his dog there. Hunter Hopp
takes a great liking to this dog, greater than to every other dog. So
he exchanges for twelve bottles ‚Krambambuli’ (cherry
brandy of Gdansk) the dog, whom from this time on he calls
‚Krambambuli’.
The dog resists with might and main to go with the hunter as well as to
obey and not before a two months lasting severe education the dog
becomes a faithful friend and keeper of the hunter Hopp. They are truly
attached one to another.
One day, the countess comes and demands from Hopp to give her
Krambambuli as a birthday gift for her husband. The hunter gives away
the dog on condition that he gets back Krambambuli, if the count would
not succeed in feeding the dog and winning his confidence. A little
later, Hopp may fetch his dog (which is meanwhile in bad shape),
because in fact, Krambambuli has disdained every feed and bitten
everyone who approached him.
At the same time, a gang of poachers is gading about the region so that
are caused heavy losses of wildlife. The head forester takes
ruthless measures against these abuses, e.g. he thrashes a group of
women and boys, when he gets hold of them picking twigs of blooming
linden trees. As it becomes apparent, one of these women was the lover
of the Yellow. This one taking vengeance kills the head forester.
Hunter Hopp finds his body, together with linden flowers and an old
shooting iron left by the murderer.
Few days later, the Yellow and the
hunter Hopp meet one another, both armed, the Yellow with the head
forester’s breech-loading gun, by which he is proved to be the
murderer. Hopp gives Krambambuli the order to grab the Yellow,
but the dog is torning between his old and his new master. Finally, he
decides for his old master and Hopp shoots dead the poacher. Boiling
with rage, he wants to kill the dog too, but having not the heart to do
that he leaves him behind near the poacher’s body.
Now Krambambuli strays around, hungry and without a master. Some time
later, hunter Hopp craves for his dog so very that he goes and searches
him. But early in the morning, when he leaves his house, he stumbles
over the perished dog – Hopp will never get over this loss.
The Latin translation follows the rules of school grammar; there are
only a few neologisms in it which correspond the rules of classical
Latin word formation.
Im Anhang Glossar und ausführliche Informationen über
Leben
und Werke der Autorin und Interpretationen der Novelle.
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| CD 14 pages, pdf-file |
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| ISBN
978-3-938905-04-3 |
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| order number:
00504 |
price € 9,50 |
| Text excerpt (pdf
28 KB) |
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