Alice in Wonderland & Through the Lookung-Glass
The stories, important background information and a biography of Lewis Carroll
Davies Guttmann (Hrsg.)ePUB
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ISBN-13: 9783735764423
Verlag: Books on Demand
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.04.2014
Sprache: Englisch
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Mehr erfahrenThe books can be read on a number of levels. They originally emerged from a boat trip that Dodgson took with a family he knew (the Liddells) including their three daughters and he told them a tale to while away the journey. The children were so taken with it that they asked him to write it down – and so the legend began.
It is quite possible that, initially, Dodgson has simply intended the tale to be a children’s story for their amusement; but when he set about writing it down, expanding and structuring it he introduced some darker, perhaps even sinister elements to the tale. His penchant for logic, dry humour and nonsense pervades the stories but there is also a suggestion of themes running through the books.
Inevitably the states of childhood and maturity feature strongly given Dodgson’s own situation and the nature of his relationships with both adults and children. The topsyturvy nature of Wonderland could be seen as a commentary on the outside world where the child, Alice, seems to be the only sane and sensible person around. Dodgson himself seemed to live more in a child’s world than adults. The nature of his occupations – in academia, the church and finally writing – would all serve to contain him in an unreal existence, somewhat separate from the harsh truths of the world around him.
Perhaps it was all an acting out of his own fantasy – a world full of conundrums, logic puzzles and childlike interactions that he would much preferred to inhabit than the world he was personally faced with. Whatever the true motivations and meanings behind them, the stories have stood the test of time as children tales and literature in their own right and scholars today continue to pore over the interpretation of the musings of a lonely mathematics teacher from 150 years ago.
Davies Guttmann (Hrsg.)
Davies Guttmann was born in 1966 in Vienna, were he lives with his wife and their four children.
He started his business life 1988 as editor of the leading Austrian stock market letter. Many other financial publications followed. Guttmann also worked for various newspapers as a financial journalist. In the 90ies he was co-publisher of werk-zeug, a technology and art magazine, as well as Streetfashion, a magazine featuring fashionable people on the streets of the world.
After this Guttmann worked as a Alternative Investment and Private Equity specialist.
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