“The Silduella People” by Gottfried Keller – Books – Culture

Two very similar farmers

“It’s still housed in the same old round walls and towers as it was three hundred years ago, so it’s always the same nest.”

Author Gottfried Keller put ten stories into this “nest”, including well-known stories such as “The Blacksmith of His Fortune”, “Clothes Make the Man” and the tragedy “Romeo and Juliet in the Village”, which takes place in the middle. Environment category. At first, the focus was on farmers Mannes and Marty, who were not similar only in name.

Slowly, with a certain natural sensitivity, they advanced one foot after the other, not one of them saying a word […] Thus they resembled each other quite at a distance; for they are the species native to this region, and can only be distinguished at first glance by the fact that one wore the corner of his white hat forward, while the other hung down the back of his neck.”

Children’s relationship

Marty and Manz are stubborn. They fall on a small deserted field. Unfortunately, Francine and Sally, who are her two children, fall in love with each other. Vrenchen’s happiness becomes Sali’s emotional door opener.

The latter, amazed and amazed, stared into his eyes with a laughing mouth, like a hungry man who sees a piece of sweet wheat bread, and exclaimed: “By God, Freiley! How beautiful you are! “

Many well-known speakers

Peter Simonischek reads Romeo and Juliet in the Village with typical calmness, warmth and clarity. The rhythm and melody of the language adapt perfectly to Keeler’s skilful composition.

Overall, this version features several well-known actors. Read Birgit Mennishmeyer’s “Spiegel, the Little Cat”, Frank Arnold’s “The Blacksmith of His Happiness”, Wolfram Koch’s “Only Three Comb Makers”, Ulrich Nothen’s “Pancras the Schmuller” and Eva Matthysse’s “Mrs. Riegel Amren and Her Youngest”.

Mr. Amarin, a handsome man, had to consume a fair amount of meat, fish, and wine, and needed large pieces of silk for his wide and handsome waistcoats, sky-blue, cherry-red, and exquisitely checkered, he was originally a button-maker, And he also had single-buttoned and woven at other hours of the day.

Deservedly sarcastic descriptions

Mr. Amren is a fraud and debt-maker – described by Gottfried Keeler in an impressively sarcastic manner. Amarine abandons his family and runs away to America, and Mrs. Riggle has been a single mother ever since. She fights for the survival and well-being of her children. Until one day the youngest son Fritz unexpectedly saw a man, his father:

“He who only knew was a vain, wild and vain man, who, moreover, had traveled the world for twenty years, and now heaven knows what a strange and frightening fellow he can be.”

Special editorial offer

In addition to its selection of speakers, this audiobook impresses and even excels in its editorial design, which differs dramatically from the vast majority of new productions today.

Not only are the full text and the clairvoyant’s preface included in the comprehensive supplemental books; The publisher Albert Bolliger has also created a glossary with expository terms that make it easier to understand Keeler’s cycle of novels in general and some of the original Swiss formulas in particular. All in all, an exemplary publication that simply makes you want to read Gottfried Keller, as he is one of the most skilled storytellers in the German language.