#preussler

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Preußler and the non-ironic children's book

Another topic that is totally disconnected from my usuall stuff, even about a topic I don't really care about - childrens books.

So for a bit of a backstory, in primary school I actually read a lot, but mostly just things for kids like Winnie the Pooh, Astrid Lindgren books, some native collections of fairy tales or soviet childrens storys (actually some of those may be a topic for another post lol...)

But one author I read quite a lot was Preußler, a german-czech guy (even though I read them translated into my native language mostly).

Anyways to get to the point - I dont know if its my bad memory or my ignorance, but thinking back I had, maybe a totally baseless, realization, that Preußlers books were unique in a certain way compared to a lot of other stuff, or atleast the "modern" childrens book, like Matilda or even a lot more contemparary stuff:

Those are either ironic, a way of the author in a way getting a simmilar joy that an older kid gets from teaching a toddler swear words, a quite sick thing one probably shouldnt do - like the author of Matilda who was supposedly very cynical and mysanthropic, writting on the edge what was acceptable for kids, but I think he is the most extreme example - others atleast still write with the vibe of "Oh ofcourse I actually know this is childish, and I put in this whole satire and clever jokes and allusions to not so child friendly things!!!"

Ofcourse there is also the maybe even more cynical option of "Oh Im writting for babys, lets just make the most generic baby shit possible, who cares, lets call all the chararchters gaga maga, bubu ubu etc"

But Preußler, if Im not being blinded by nostalgia, didnt fall for that - his books seemed to have had this genuine charm and aura of childhood inocence, that wasnt drenched neither in irony or sacherine colours and key jingling.

But alas, maybe I am truly misremembering - can one truly say what one read being a dumb child, nearly two decades ago?

Idk man, mayne this post is pointless, maybe it isnt.

And also it isnt totally unrelated to soul eater - well in a way - there is on tumblr a drawing of "the little ghost* replaced with Crona, prompted by an old anonymous ask lol.

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The Little Ghost by Otfried Preußler

Artist : Nika Goltz (1925–2012)

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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Čarodějův učeň) 1978, dir. Karel Zeman IMDB

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The Little Ghost by Otfried Preussler

Artist: Nika Golts (1925–2012).

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GUTZ by Warlord Colossus, Teddy Slugz 🐌🎧

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The Robber Hotzenplotz (1962)

Story: Otfried Preussler -- Art: Josef Tripp

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Everyone else on Walpurgisnacht "I will drink myself in a coma and party all night."

Me on Walpurgisnacht: *listens to the "Die kleine Hexe" audioplay*

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April 29 30 2023: Freebie

Tonight is "Walpurgisbacht", a time when traditionally the witches gather in the Blocksberg for their annual meeting.

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[ Welcher Krabat Charakter ist der beste (von einem introspektiven Standpunkt)? ]

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plush book self-care

[nitta86]

2024 tavaszán olvastam

Ok��, negatív rekord, hogy nyár közepén teszem fel a tavaszi olvasmánylistámat, de igazából tökmindegy ez amúgy is főleg nekem fontos.

Először következzen egy toplista:

Roy Jacobsen: A láthatatlanok

Ez egy nagyon nagyon jó könyv, Norvégia kb. 100 éve kis sziget , amit egy db család lak, akik halászatból élnek. Azt hiszem abba az életkorba értem, hogy szeretem a tájleírásokat, mert ebben a könyvben imádtam őket, meg az egésznek a hangulatát. A másik ami tetszett a hétköznapok bemutatása és a történelmi hitelesség. Az, hogy eleinte nem lehetett megállapítani, hogy hol járunk az időben, a sziget technikai fejlettségéből kiindulva lehettünk volna bármikor. Különösen tetszett, hogy szerző se nem idealizálta se nem démonizálta az akkori emberek életét. Látszott, hogy kemény élet, de egy nagyon összetartó család, de mindez lehet rosszabb is ha valaki ennél is szegényebb helyre vagy kevésbé idilli családba születik.

2. Otfried Preussler: Krabat a fekete malomban

Ez egy baromi jó ifjúsági könyv, meseszerű, de elég kemény témákat feszeget, zsarnokságról, szabadságról, lázadásról szól, miközben egy népmesei elemekből szőtt fantasy regény.

3. Hidas Judit: Seb

Magyarországon játszódik a közelmúltban, három különböző anyagi helyzetű család sorsát követjük. Senki se túl boldog de mégse az az érfelvágós szépirodalom, inkább olyan hétköznapi. Jól mutatja be, hogy miért maradnak benne emberek boldogtalan házasságban, meg valószínűleg a vidéki kilátástalanság is reális.

4. Jókai Mór: Gazdag szegények

Ez meg meglepően jó volt. A nyelvezete nehéz a mai olvasónak, de mégis végig izgultam, hogy mi fog történni a szereplőkkel. Korrajznak meg nagyon érdekes volt.

És a teljes tavaszi lista:

Március:

Ilona Andrews: Gunmetal Magic

márciusban fejeztem be

Ilona Andrews: Magic Gifts

Thais Gibson: Kötődési problémák és megoldások (félig)

Trevor Noah: Bűnben születtem

Hidas Judit: Seb

Jókai Mór: Gazdag szegények

Április:

Ilona Andrews: Iron and Magic

Christopher Moore: Vérszívó démonok

Christopher Moore: Totál szívás

Otfried Preussler: Krabat a fekete malomban

Május:

Karin Fossum: Ne nézz vissza

Karin Fossum: Aki mást szeret

Karin Fossum: Elszabadul a pokol

Roy Jacobsen: A láthatatlanok

Roy Jacobsen: A fehér tenger

Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451

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The substack on "seperating the art from the artist" was interesting. But one detail lead me to a question - childrens books.

I know it was mostly used to mock people who don't want to engadge with anything "icky" as the demographic probably likes to say, but still.

So the question is, should books for kids be squeaky clean, be these gardens of eden were no evil shows its head, till they grow into the maturity which will let them confront the barbarity of literature vis a vis reality?

One could already use this as a segway to argue the opposite - that with the amount of adults not being able to deal with literature going against their provincal pseudo-morals, children should be "trained" from young age to not be like that - the point of childhood is paradoxically to grow out of it, even if many dont want to.

But on the other hand, and this may reveal myself to be the object of the previous high-nosed snot shower:

I kinda do feel "icky" when I think about all these kids books that try to be "hehe, I'm gonna show kids the real world!"

Like that Matilda author, forgot his name, I remember a year ago there was some fake drama about censorship which ofcourse was stupid but still

I do feel some kind of spite, that irony, that want to be subversive that goes against the idealised view of childhood.

Or maybe my realistic view - with all the cruelty and unavoidable misery - but that wants me to say, "why expose them to more of it?"

Because intuition tells me that those "edgy" childrens book have a simmilar ethos as a teenaged kid trying to teach a todler swear words, or to do a roman salute or whatever, this corrupting of the innocent for the sake of it.

But maybe this whole ramble is just the result of a Lacanian wish to crawl back into the vomb, my lile of Preussler's books just a want to become the little ghost who just can fly around in his eternal castle never growing up.

Still ofcourse I get that it is absurd to rant against Matilda with all the childrens media going way further in many ways and the fact that even I as a young child easily acceseed stuff I wasnt supossed to.

So maybe I answerred my own question - maybe there shouldnt even be childrens books in the first place, just books that are more and less apropriate for younger and yet younger kids.

(Also they should burn all those obviously on porpuse braindead picture books, you know the type lol)

Yes, as I discussed here, I didn't really read children's books unless made to and don't find it to be all that appealing a category. People thought comic books were like children's books, so I was happily reading Grant Morrison's occult phantasmagoria, Frank Miller's post-apocalyptic reactionary satire, and Alan Moore's Freudian traumatology of the archetypes at the age of five and six—and I wouldn't have it any other way. Anyway, the writers who shifted children's books out of their moralizing paradigm and into neo-modernist aesthetic integrity in the late 19th century tended to be either quasi-pedophiles like Carroll and Barrie or figures like Potter rather deliberately trying to expose children to the tooth-and-claw realities polite society otherwise evaded. Children's primordial innocence was a useful historical construct, the slowly evolving joint work of Christianity and the Enlightenment, and we are rightly suspicious of those who would tamper too much with it today; but it was a historical construct, it has produced its own return-of-the-repressed shadow (it's likely generated as much pedophilia as it's ever discouraged by inventing the taboo to be profaned), and it has been carried to unconscionable extremes of life-aversion and anti-intellectualism in our time (e.g., the "brain" doesn't "finish" till age 25 or whatever other ridiculous scientific myth of permanent incapacity we're supposed to believe based on the latest spate of fake "studies" these days). People are probably just people at any age from the onset of consciousness forward—I am aware of no great shift in the core of my identity since about the age of five and never thought of myself as a child—and, because there is alas no protecting everyone from everything in the end, they should at least be armed with knowledge and cultivation at the earliest possible moment.

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New papertoy is Robber Hotzenplotz, a beloved character from series of books by Otfried Preussler. He is based on Nicholas Ofczarek's portrayal from “Der Räuber Hotzenplotz” 2022 film.

Download FREE PDF to build your own from my blog + there are some instructions in English and Russian.

Previously I've done Petrosilius Zwackelmann as played by August Diehl in the same film, check him out.

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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Čarodějův učeň) 1978, dir. Karel Zeman IMDB

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Thank you for the tag, @evelhak 💕

5 Songs

I don't really listen to music these days so naming specific songs is too hard atm (might return to this later)

Three ships you like: narusasu, shiita, kagakuro

First ship ever: Harry Potter/OC (to be fair I was 13-14 years old lmao), the next one after that was Inuyasha/Kagome

Last song you heard: I can't even remember lmao

Favorite childhood book: I have a lot of books from my childhood but I really gotta answer with Krabat, written by Otfried Preussler. I read this book when I was around 12, and it left an ever-lasting impression on me. It tells the story of a boy who becomes an apprentice in a mill, but the master of the mill has a dark secret. I haven't read this book in ages bc I haven't gotten my hands on an English version yet, but I really want to! Awesome book, loved it a lot!

Currently reading: A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch by Sarah Hawley (I really need to buy this book, I burst out laughing during the first chapter lmao)

Currently watching: video game streams and playthroughs

Currently craving: sushi and cuddles :(

I really want to tag @freakontour, but if you see this, feel free to do it <3

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Tag 9 people you want to get to know better

Tagged by @kuwdora

Three ships: the first three in alphabetical order on my ao3 favorites page are Amane Misa/Rem, Armitage Hux/Kylo Ren, and Aurora/Maleficent (Disney). It's a pretty long list, though.

Last song: Cynthia Battle Theme Remix by GlitchxCity

Last movie: I actually just watched ... if I remember correctly the title, "Not Another Nightlife Movie" by jaydee something something. On youtube. It's supposed to be one of the greatest Sims Machinima movies made in that era, and it is pretty impressive.

Currently reading: Just finished a reread of Krabat by Otfried Preussler

Currently watching: I started "Inventing Anna" due to interest in the premise but I'm about halfway through the pilot episode and still uncommitted. Also watching some "Company Man" videos (youtuber).

Currently consuming: bagel with cream cheese (dinner)

Currently craving: More Ooblets (video game)

tagging @seacrown, @stedefucker, @lvsifer, @meabeck, @serious-goose, @widthofmytongue, @thedrowsydoormouse, @cassatine

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17, 18, 19? :)

17. top 5 children’s books?

ah. hmmm. 1) i have forgotten every children's book i've ever read all of a sudden 2) as a kid i read a lot of estonian lit, which is unhelpful. i think i mentioned my fondness for krabat by otfried preussler before, and i think that's my number 1 fave though. it's really stuck with me through the ages

18. do you like historical books? which time period?

sure do! i prefer contemporary-to-that-time-period over historical fiction, usually, but exceptions can be made. anyway 1910s and 1920s is where the party's at, for me, but late 19th century can be pretty fun too.

19. most disliked popular books?

here's a random assortment:

a little life by hanya yanagihara - this is a study in misery, which i don't take issue with as such, but it reaches a point where it just becomes sort of... unintentionally comedic. moreover, i think it's not helped by the fact that the protagonist is beautiful and perfect in literally every way and everyone that isn't cartoonishly evil loves him. oh, and most offensive detail of them all, it's full of pro-contract law propaganda. get the fuck out of here with that!

the charm offensive by alison cochrun - i feel bad for dunking on it, because i really should not have been reading it, as known hater of romance, but 1) i try to keep an open mind 2) i fucking LOVE the bachelor. i had such high hopes for it to be juicy and full of drama and all i got was monologued on why the bachelor is Bad. the main leads had 0 chemistry, the author seemed to be angling for the fake dating trope, but honestly i forgot that it was even there. overall, a really shallow and boring book

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid - another one i feel bad for not liking. and i think i could have liked it, if i had gone into it with any other expectations. i repeatedly saw it presented as this epic, tragic queer romance of the ages, but it's pretty much just melodrama and celebrity gossip. which i love, but the dissonance was too jarring for me. and again, i just didn't feel the chemistry at all between the two women? the book basically just told us that they were in love over and over again, without really showing why