/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14564601]

What the fuck is wrong with Germans? Do not say: "nothing, that's a good book".

[Anonymous No.14564642]

>>14564601
German, real Germans, were fucking horrid people. Post enlightenment they were just a bit gauche until they got butthurt about being fixed by Jewish people.

[Anonymous No.14564702]

do german boys have beautiful feet

[Anonymous No.14564708]

>>14564702
No, Arabs have disgusting feet

[Anonymous No.14564727]

>>14564601
That style of sadistic hardness was universally valid up until about 75 years ago.

[Anonymous No.14564730]

>>14564601
Nothing, that's a great book.

[Anonymous No.14564738]

>>14564708
do they? some of the ones i've seen have been quite supple.

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>>14564601
It was a different time

[Anonymous No.14564784]

>>14564601
Nichts, das ist ein gut buch

[Anonymous No.14564792]

nothing, that’s a good book

[Anonymous No.14565876]

>>14564730
>>14564792
>>14564784
based

[Anonymous No.14565906]

>>14564601
>In Die Geschichte vom fliegenden Robert ("The Story of Flying Robert"): A boy goes outside during a storm. The wind catches his umbrella and lifts him high into the air. The story ends with the boy sailing into the distance.
What a chad.

[Anonymous No.14565922]

>>14565906
When the rain comes tumbling down
In the country or the town,
All good little girls and boys
Stay at home and mind their toys.
Robert thought, - "No, when it pours,
It is better out of doors."
Rain it did, and in a minute
Bob was in it.
Here you see him, silly fellow,
Underneath his red umbrella.
What a wind! Oh! how it whistles
Through the trees and flow'rs and thistles.
It has caught his red umbrella;
Now look at him, silly fellow,
Up he flies
To the skies.
No one heard his screams and cries;
Through the clouds the rude wind bore him,
And his hat flew on before him.
Soon they got to such height,
They were nearly out of sight!
And the hat went Up so high,
That it almost touch'd the sky.
No one ever yet could tell
Where they stopp'd, or where they fell;
Only this one thing is plain,
Rob was never seen again!

[Anonymous No.14565984]

>>14565922
Absolutely Based.

Revolt Against the Modern World.

[Anonymous No.14566003]

>>14564601
Stories
>Struwwelpeter describes a boy who does not groom himself properly and is consequently unpopular.
>In Die Geschichte vom bösen Friederich ("The Story of Wicked Frederick"): A violent boy terrorizes animals and people. Eventually he is bitten by a dog, who goes on to eat the boy's food while Frederick is bedridden.
>In Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug ("The Very Sad Tale with the Matches"): A girl plays with matches, accidentally ignites herself and burns to death.
>In Die Geschichte von den schwarzen Buben ("The Story of the Black Boys"): Nikolas (or "Agrippa" in some translations)[6] catches three boys teasing a dark-skinned boy. To teach them a lesson, he dips them in black ink.
>Die Geschichte von dem wilden Jäger ("The Story of the Wild Huntsman") is the only story not primarily focused on children. In it, a hare steals a hunter's musket and eyeglasses and begins to hunt the hunter. In the ensuing chaos, the hare's child is burned by hot coffee and the hunter falls into a well.
>In Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher ("The Story of the Thumb-Sucker"): A mother warns her son Konrad not to suck his thumbs. However, when she goes out of the house he resumes his thumb-sucking, until a roving tailor appears and cuts off his thumbs with giant scissors.
>Die Geschichte vom Suppen-Kaspar ("The Story of Soup-Kaspar") begins as Kaspar (or "Augustus" in some translations), a healthy, strong boy, proclaims that he will no longer eat his soup. Over the next five days, he wastes away and dies.
>In Die Geschichte vom Zappel-Philipp ("The Story of Fidgety Philip"): A boy who won't sit still at dinner accidentally knocks all of the food onto the floor, to his parents' great displeasure.
>Die Geschichte von Hans Guck-in-die-Luft ("The Story of Johnny Look-In-The-Air") concerns a boy who habitually fails to watch where he's walking. One day he walks into a river; he is soon rescued, but his writing-book drifts away.
>In Die Geschichte vom fliegenden Robert ("The Story of Flying Robert"): A boy goes outside during a storm. The wind catches his umbrella and lifts him high into the air. The story ends with the boy sailing into the distance.
Sounds American af

[Anonymous No.14566099]

>>14566003
Its amazing that those are still common-knowledge stories in Germany and practically everyone had grown up with them

[Anonymous No.14566103]

>>14564601
unironically read this book to my children

[Anonymous No.14566105]

>>14564601
Americans aren't interested in teaching their children anything, that's why media for children in the US is vulgar garbage with pop songs in it.

[Anonymous No.14566117]

>>14564601
I remember this book. My grandma had a copy.
The part with the man with the giant scissors cutting the kid's finger because he wouldn't stop picking is nose was scary to me.

[Anonymous No.14566124]

>>14564601

It was one of my fav books. I can't remember how old I was, but it was before I turned 8.
Nowadays books intended for children take children as customers. That is wrong.

[Anonymous No.14566197]

>>14565984
How do you make that connection?

[Anonymous No.14566332]

My dad was born into nazi Germany in what is now Czech republic. His parents read them to him and he read them to me. They definitely stick with you and you get weird stoic feelings toward bad things happening but are still paranoid about them happening.

[Anonymous No.14566468]

>>14565922
god i wish that was me