The Raton family and their adventures
The rat family (also The Adventures of the Raton Family ) is a fairy tale by the French author Jules Verne . It was first published in January 1891 under the French title: Aventures de la famille Raton. Conte de fées published in Le Figaro illustré in Paris . Verne's son Michel Verne took the story into the anthology Yesterday and Tomorrow (French: Here et demain ). In this collection it was published in France in November and December 1910, along with other short stories by Jules Verne . The German-language first edition was published in April 1989 by Fischer Taschenbuchverlag in Frankfurt am Main .
action
All living beings are subject to transmigration of souls and must pass through various animal stages before they become humans. Good fairies help them with this. In contrast, evil wizards try to reverse this development. This is the situation in which the large Raton family of rats finds itself .
background
According to Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, the fairy tale is a mixture of the adventure novels known by Jules Verne and the literary genres fairy tales and animal fables . It refers to this through quotations , set pieces and allusions . At the same time these are parodied. It is an art fairy tale that does not take itself seriously, but can be understood and read on various levels. His comedy arises mainly from the play on words and the transformations of the members of the Raton family into other animal species whose characters correspond to those of the respective family members. The fairy tale contains many autobiographical allusions by Jules Verne, which probably arose from the fact that Jules Verne wrote this fairy tale in old age and during a time of deep depression as a kind of balance sheet. He portrays himself in the inhuman, gouty and " philosophical " father Raton.
expenditure
- Aventures de la famille Raton (illustrées par Dom). Éditions Raminagrobis, Gentilly (Val-de-Marne) 2011, ISBN 979-10-90335-00-4 .
- The Raton Family Adventures . A fairy tale, translated and edited by Volker Dehs , Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-596-22880-8 (German first edition).
- The Raton family and their adventures , newly translated by Daniel Stark, Edition Octopus, Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-86991-070-3 .
literature
- Heinrich Pleticha (ed.): Jules Verne manual . Deutscher Bücherbund / Bertelsmann, Stuttgart / Munich 1992, ISBN 3-568-79245-1 .
- Volker Dehs, Ralf Junkerjürgen: Jules Verne . Voices and interpretations of his work. Fantastic Library Wetzlar, Wetzlar 2005, DNB 974107530 (= series and materials of the Fantastic Library Wetzlar , volume 75).
- Volker Dehs: Jules Verne. A critical biography . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-538-07208-6 .
