Twenty days with Julian and Little Bunny

Julian and Nathaniel Hawthorne, around 1850.

Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny , in the original English Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa , is the title of a work by the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne .

It is a longer passage in his private notebook or diary that is not intended for publication. Hawthorne describes a few weeks in the summer of 1851, which he spent without a wife and daughters, but with his five-year-old son Julian and his play rabbit "Little Bunny". The work was first published as a single print in 1904, but has only been known to specialists since then. In 2003 the New York Review of Books published it again, with a detailed introduction by Paul Auster , and made the work known to a wider public. A German translation by Alexander Pechmann was published by Jung und Jung in 2011 .

expenditure

• Nathaniel Hawthorne: Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny: A Diary . The De Vinne Press, New York 1904.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa . The New York Review of Books, 2003, ISBN 1-59017-042-3 .
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: Twenty days with Julian and Little Bunny . German by Alexander Pechmann. Jung and Jung, Salzburg / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902497-84-0 .

Reviews

American edition

• Mel Gussow: Rosy Days of Fatherhood, Far From 'The Scarlet Letter' . In: The New York Times . August 11, 2003.
• Brenda Wineapple: A Loving Father's Fleeting Joy . In: Los Angeles Times . July 27, 2003.

German edition

• Werner von Koppenfels : Paradise apples from New England . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 27, 2011.
• Sigrid Löffler : A cheerful picture of father and son . Transcript of a contribution on Deutschlandradio Kultur , July 20, 2011.
• (no name): Insights into unknown private life . Transcript of a contribution from Deutschlandfunk Büchermarkt, June 1, 2012.