Les Aventures De baron De Munchhausen

About the author: Rasber (1737— 1794) was born in Hanover, Germany, and came from a noble family.

Translator: Cao Naiyun, Xiao Sheng

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Book code: YL003 184 Issue code: D00690

ISBN: 978-7-5447-0489-2

Version: February 2008 No.65438 +0 Edition, February 2008 No.65438 +0 Printing.

Date: March 28th, 2008

Book type: paperback

Binding: 880x1230mm 1/32

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Introduction:

Baron Minxihausen is a happy adventurer and a famous braggart. His strange stories may be jokes and crazy talk, but they are full of imagination and wisdom. Don't take it seriously, but don't take it as a fake. Laugh with him, and you will get unexpected happiness in his thrilling adventure. This adventure book includes Baron Min Xihaosen's Wonderful Travel and Interesting Adventures on Sea and Land, Baron Min Xihao's Land and Water Adventures and Baron Min Xihaosen's Land and Water Travel and Final Destiny, which is the first and most complete translation of China.

Introduction:

The treasure of children's literature and the monument of satirical literature.

Fantasy stories and magical fairy tales not only eclipsed other children's literature works at that time, but also swept the world for 200 years!

In the eyes of some literary masters, The Adventures of Faust is as great as Goethe's Faust and Lessing's Prometheus Liberated.

Foreword of translator

We have been hoping to translate The Adventures of Master bost for many years. Today, we are very happy to see Min Xihaosen, a happy braggart, come to the readers with a brand-new look and a lively attitude. Judging from the contents of the book, our translation includes two parts: the creative stories of Bilger and the Cooper brothers. The former was translated by Comrade Xiao Sheng and the latter by Comrade Cao Naiyun. Among them, The Adventures of Min Xihaosen written by Cuypers brothers is the first introduction in China, accounting for almost half of the whole book.

China readers are no strangers to Min Xihaosen. They read a lot of anecdotes about Min Xihaosen from various translations. The question is, did Min Xihaosen really tell so many stories? In fact, I'm afraid the Germans are still not sure whether Minxihaosen told a story at the wedding, even though these stories won him great worldwide honor. People know that this is a story dedicated to boasting. However, the publication and publication of such stories did not get his approval and support, and Min Xihaosen was not happy about it, but was very annoyed and miserable about it.

Baron Khroni Moose karl friedrich von munchhausen is a real person. He was a manor owner in Hanover, Germany, in the18th century, and was born in a noble family. Before his death, the most authoritative figure in this clan was not the familiar Min Xihaosen, but Gaila Adolf von Min Xihaosen (1688- 1770). He was a politician who built the University of G? ttingen during George II and paid tribute to the Prime Minister Elector of Hanover. He appointed Albrecht von Haller to work at the University of G? ttingen and recruited the famous Billner to work in his hometown.

As a manor owner, Heronemus von Minxihausen's life and career did not cause a sensation. According to the name in the work, people only know that he seems to have participated in the Russian war, is busy hunting, is good at telling stories and so on. 1720, 10 In May, he was born in Minxihausen Manor in Bodenwilt, and his hometown is on the wiesel River. Bodenwilt is an enclave in Hanover, Brunswick. /kloc-at the age of 0/3, Khroni Moose was sent to Wolfen Baertl to serve the Earl of Brunswick as a court waiter. At the age of eighteen, he went to Riga with Prince Anton Ulri of Brunswick, served as trumpeter and standard bearer, and joined the Russian cavalry battalion. 1740, Queen Anna appointed him as a second lieutenant, 1750, Queen Elizabeth promoted him as a cavalry captain. Between 1740 and 174 1, Min Xihaosen participated in the Turkish war twice. 1750, Min Xihaosen returned to his hometown at the age of 30 and returned to Bodenwilt for the Spring and Autumn Festival. He delights in hunting and spends all day with "friends, hounds and horses", just like a local aristocrat.

Min Xihaosen is good at talking and humorous by nature. He is very generous and respected by his friends. /kloc-At the end of 0/8th century, the Germans transplanted many jokes and funny stories into his name intentionally or unintentionally, which made him entertain Europe with Cervantes' Don Quixote and Defoe's Robinson, clearly reflecting the changes of the times and the development of humanities.

After 1744, Min Xihaosen began a sweet marriage life, but failed to pick the fruit of love. His knees are desolate and there are no children. The wife is a woman with considerable wealth, so she left before him. Four years after his wife died, Min Xihaosen couldn't bear loneliness and married a girl of 18 years old. The woman is demanding and frivolous, so her second marriage showed many disasters from the beginning. Min Xihaosen, who was nearly old and thin, later fell into a protracted, costly and racking his brains for divorce. 1787 On February 22nd, as a talented comedian in German folklore, Min Xihaosen suffered great emotional pain and slept peacefully in the "bed of honor".

178 1 In August, 2008, Mi Rivas published Min Haosen's story in the magazine "Guide to Happy People" published in Berlin, Germany. * * * There are sixteen "anecdotes" and "funny humor". The author is anonymous. Two years later, the magazine extracted two pieces of Min's cowhide. These stories are loosely arranged, with the first person as the narrator, that is, "my story". This artistic style just reflects the characteristics of magazines and rococo literature and art period. People want to tell this story as interesting and elegant as possible. The stories collected in the Happy Man's Guide laid the foundation for the world-famous Adventures of Boast. Until today, people actually don't know who is the author of the story about Min in Happy People's Guide. Once upon a time, people generally thought it was the poet Bilger; Now he is more regarded as Professor Rasberg.

Rudolf erich Rasber was born in Hanover on 1737. This is a restless figure. He is knowledgeable and wise, and has studied minerals, geology, volcanoes and linguistics. 1767, Rasber worked as a librarian and a keeper of ancient art relics in Gasell, Hesse, and concurrently served as a university professor. He lives a luxurious life, but he is in adversity and his salary is meager. Unconsciously, he was heavily in debt. Finally, he took risks and stole many precious cultural relics and gold coins. People discovered his crime from his carefully crafted documents. 1775, Rasber absconded to England. In England, he experienced various experiences. 1in the spring of 794, Rushmore was ordered to build a coal mine or copper mine in southwest Ireland. His mind was full of many new plans and hopes, but a scarlet fever finally took his life.

Lashbo is an outstanding figure with literary genius. He studied many foreign languages, translated Lessing's Nathan the Wise into English, and enthusiastically introduced Russian phase and Thomas Percy to German readers (1729-1811). Percy is a famous English poet, antique collector, bishop and editor of an ancient English poetry collection. He initiated the folk revival movement in the18th century, which had a great influence on romantic poetry in Germany and Britain. Rasber's achievements were appreciated by Herder (1744— 1803). In addition, he discovered Leibniz's articles before his death (1646— 17 16) and published a series of papers on natural science and ancient coins. The German philosopher Kant (1724— 1804) was also deeply impressed by his academic papers. 1768, the royal society appointed him as a member of the society. 1775, because he was told of the crime of stealing ancient coins, the royal society expelled him from the society again.

Through unremitting efforts, Rushbo's achievements in translation and research have won new honors in Britain, but he has also suffered new humiliation: he is called "an outstanding linguist with great honor" in the list of 500 outstanding British writers in 1788. But at the same time, he had to endure the threat of hunger and cold. Because he couldn't pay his debts, he had to go to court with the tailor and was finally detained for trial. Another employer fired him just because he lied.

After many efforts and textual research, German academic circles have come to the conclusion that the author of The Adventures of Boast, published anonymously in 1786 (probably at the end of 1785), was none other than Rasber. This book was reprinted at least seven times in Britain from 65438 to 0789, and some new stories were added, expanded and supplemented. The title of several stories is Gulliver's resurrection, and the subtitle of one story is the bad habit of lying. 1786 * * The original version of this little book has 56 pages. The book says that the printing place is Oxford, and the subtitle of the book is "Baron Mincehausen's Adventures in Russia". The new Gulliver is mentioned in the preface of the book in order to make Baron Mincehausen in the book more suitable for English reading interest. 1786, when the third edition of the book was published, the content of bragging and lying increased obviously. In addition to the adventures on Russian soil, five maritime adventures have been added here. Obviously, these contents have not been written by Rasber. They form the second part of the book, perhaps to cater to the special interests of this British island country. Later editions constantly add stories of sea adventures, but both retain the overall structure of the two main parts of the book. Even the German translation published anonymously by G A Bielg in 1786 has maintained the characteristics of the original, although he has also added many new contents to it. After the English version, the German version quickly gained success and found a market. (However, translator Bilger and author Lashbo are still as poor as before. This shows that Lashbo's works cater to the fashion of the times. Min Xihaosen is still warmly welcomed by hundreds of millions of readers in today's world, which reflects the demand for joy in folk life. This is the natural taste of human beings.

Gottfride August Bū rger (1747— 1794) is a famous narrative poet in The Fury. Like Goethe, he has many expressive techniques of literary and artistic creation. His narrative poems are concise, magnificent and based on emotion. Sometimes, the plots he makes up in his poems are very gloomy and terrible. However, his story of Hausen in western Fujian is elegant, exquisite, vivid and beautiful, with cheerful, clear, concise, humorous and full of sense of humor. It vividly embodies Rococo's literary trend of thought, and together with Pigl of Orens and Citizen of the Hill, it forms a wonderful series of 19 and German folk stories in the 20th century. In this sense, The Adventures of Boast is not only a vivid children's book, but also an interesting social book for readers of all social classes.

Throughout Bilger's life, it is not difficult to find that he is not luckier than Rushmore. He is a local middle-level official with a low salary. He is a teacher at the University of G? ttingen and has no fixed income. Bigger lost a lot of money playing the prize. Later, I was ill in bed for a long time, and I met my third marriage in my later years, which caused many scandals and jokes and finally divorced. 179 1 year, Schiller, a great German poet, anonymously commented on his poems and described him as useless. Buel was ashamed and finally died of tuberculosis. 47 years old, died young.

Rasber published Minxihaosen anonymously because he was worried that this bold and funny story would affect his reputation and ambition of serious science. Of course, he may also deliberately want to play tricks on the Hausen family in western Fujian and the German rich. Because Gail La Adolf von Minxihausen tried to stop him from publishing an article about Leibniz, he was very upset and used the title of "Cowhide King", which was obviously related to Sironi Moose.

However, the reason why Bilger concealed his name may be that he had to take care of his reputation as a professor. Looks like he's still hiding it. His "Minxi Haosen" was described as "poor writing" by newspapers and magazines at that time. With the passage of time, people's evaluation of this book has changed fundamentally. But it was not until after his death that Bilger was finally recognized as the translator or author of Min Xihaosen. In his life, he was neither named after this fruitful book nor benefited from this marketable book. Bierger gave the book to the publisher for free, just thanking the publisher for helping him in many ways when he was in financial difficulties.

Bilger's version maintained a certain classical form. At present, many translations in the world have noticed this phenomenon. Folk stories have been popular all over Europe for a long time. In addition to adding new stories to The Adventures of the Boatman, they also significantly expand the popular oral language in the book, because some adventure stories are fictional or written by storytellers according to their own life experiences. However, almost all Min Xihaosen's stories have precedents in16th century European funny jokes. Therefore, The Adventures of Boast is actually a new compilation of stories scattered among the people. Fairy tales, jokes, funny stories and other folklore provide a steady stream of materials for it.

G.A. Bigger translated one part of Rasberg's story word for word, while the other part was freely played, consciously added and expanded, forming a new "encyclopedia of lies". What needs to be explained and pointed out is that the terms "lie", "cowhide", "bragging" and "lying" involved here are all the same concepts, and they are all translations of the word Lü gen in German. The question now is, what are the characteristics of the book "The Adventures of the Boastmaster"?

On the surface, this is a collection of stories about hunting, war and tourism. The story contains strong colors of exaggeration, boasting and boasting. In fact, this literary genre has a long history and tradition. In some travel stories in ancient Europe, there are many incredible contents. However, the author often swears repeatedly that all the stories told in the statement are true. In the 2nd century AD, Lucian (120-180), a Greek, wrote Dialogue between God and Hades. Among these satires, he called those explicit satires "true stories". It is these "true stories" that add a reliable blueprint for the poet's fictional trip to the sea and the moon. The Adventures of boas Masters will naturally not go beyond this scope. Rasber asked the baron to play the role of being punished for lying. Through a series of exaggerated descriptions and naive lies in his travel by sea, land and air, he dwarfs the smoothest braggart.

Of course, the story of Min Xihaosen created by Rasber and Bigger fascinates readers not because of irony, but because of bold imagination. They cultivated and improved the bragging art in literary works, and improved the vast talk into a perfect literary form. Interestingly, on the one hand, they make up happy lies full of loopholes, on the other hand, they repeatedly emphasize that every word of their story is true according to ancient customs. In China, it's called "self-incrimination". To put it mildly, it is called "there is no silver here." Don't lose your naive funny face.

Judging from the core content of Min Xihaosen's story, they tend to use the form of "I" in the story and let "I" tell "my story". The first part of the book focuses on "my story", and some "his stories" are inserted in several places in the second part, borrowing others' mouths to describe Min Xihaosen's adventures.

Min Xihaosen, just a literary figure created by Lashbo and Bilger in The Adventures of the Boatman, should be given an inherent name "Khroni Moose" to show the difference. Such a plot is suitable in the form of "My Story". Min Xihaosen is almost alone, alone, experiencing all kinds of dangers and tests. Hunting, traveling and war are purely for appearance reasons, so as to develop the story. As a storyteller, Min Xihaosen described a series of adventures from his personal experience. He is the lucky one who succeeded by his own efforts. Rich imagination, decisive perseverance, dexterous technology and strong physique have helped him achieve unparalleled great achievements. Looking at it from another angle, because exaggeration and boasting constitute the life core of Min Xihaosen's story, "My Story" is an appropriate expression to attract readers. Sometimes, in order to change the way, he tells his own story through the mouth of others. This other person seems to be his hunting friend, traveling companion and * * *' s brother in danger on the battlefield, but in fact his thinking is like a spinning wheel. He spun many wonderful scenes from the imaginary spinning wheel alone, and finally formed an interesting story set.

Min Xihaosen's friends regard him as half a genius and the other half a charlatan. Of course, without exception, he himself was immersed in the flowery rhetoric of modesty and politeness, emphasizing that he was a genius. Min Xihaosen is not only a spiritual genius, but also a strength genius. It makes people clearly see that the literary outlook of German sturm und drang period is moving towards Rococo art period.

The form of My Story makes Min Xihaosen's artistic image form a pair of close twin brothers: inner monologue and exaggeration.

Min Xihaosen is a wonderful inner monologue. Sometimes, the words "wedding, a glass of wine in hand" printed on the title of the book really bring a lot of ridicule. In this reunited bar, no one has ever spoken. They don't have a word of cheer or a question, which seems a little different from human society. The overall impression in the book is that Min Xihaosen is sitting on a towering and comfortable sofa, reading or telling stories to a group of silent people. "Everyone said nothing, listened quietly, and didn't even blink." The story he told is very different from fairy tales. There is no dialogue here. In the long inner monologue, people can hardly hear a direct quotation. In fairy tales, legends and funny stories, dialogue is a vital and indispensable story component. In Min Xihaosen's story, Reagan doesn't work. This is not only a form of literary works, but also closely related to the way, occasion, time and audience of telling stories. In a warm and hilarious occasion, a group of well-fed rural listeners need to laugh uncontrollably. They have no spare energy and mood to appreciate many delicate psychological descriptions. They are not used to it. Therefore, the description of the baron's lonely life and unique scenery has a unique style at the beginning of the book: Min Xihaosen wears thin clothes and rides a horse through the fierce northern land. It is covered with snow, so you can't tell rivers, houses and roads apart. Min Xihaosen travels alone all day and all night. It's really lonely not to be humiliated.

Exaggeration is also a common content in the form of My Story. Min Xihaosen is a typical figure boasting about Daniel. He took all the tasks that should have been completed by seven or eight regiments under his own name, and stressed that he was a humble and sincere person. His story reflects a satirical cartoon of a living space, revealing that life is always eager for independence and can dominate its own destiny. Min Xihaosen is like a perpetual motion machine that physicists expect. He grabbed his braid and pulled it up desperately, out of the swamp and out of the predicament.

Absurdity and reality are mixed together, which adds a little possibility to the main plot that is completely impossible and puts logic in the incredible reality. This is a common expression in jokes and funny stories. The concentration of Min Xihaosen's story makes many literary and artistic features play a comprehensive role, prompting the protagonist to quickly obtain favorable accidental conditions, unhurriedly get rid of adversity and achieve a victorious ending. Min Xihaosen keeps calm and sensitive to things under any circumstances. In The Adventures of a Paperboard Man, not only Min Xihaosen and his cow are "incredibly fast", but even the story develops very fast, which makes people dizzying.

Although Min Xihaosen basically does not need the advice and help of friends, nor does he need the help of gods and immortals, he has forged a friendly alliance with fate. Happiness always smiles at him and never hates him. It extended a helping hand to Min Xihaosen from all directions. Of course, Min Xihaosen is also the creator of his own happiness: in a hurry, he collided with the gate, causing his eyes to see stars. This common life phenomenon gives braggadocio many opportunities to think. When he later fired a shotgun and needed firepower, he used his quick wits and punched him in the eye again and again. The sparks in his eyes finally helped him win. "Chance and happiness can often make up for many defects in life", which is not only the spirit of the times in18th century, but also fairy tales produced in various historical periods are trying to make this transformation, so that good men and women can save the day and find their own happiness. Sleeping beauty is like this, and so is Cinderella.

Shakespeare once said that broken legs are sometimes tougher than before after healing. This reflects that it is from the highly toxic drugs that people have extracted to save the world. It is strange to find that there are many experiences and ideas beyond time and space hidden in Min Xihaosen's story, but they are all hidden under the cloak of absurdity. Some stories seem like a series of lies, but they actually reflect the real reality and the future. They helped Min Xihaosen achieve a series of successes. Therefore, this phenomenon in literature is not only the vitality of The Adventures of Bloggers, but also profoundly reveals the purpose and purport of literary and artistic works.

There are also familiar upside-down phenomena in elegant literature and folk literature, such as rabbits chasing hunters with firearms; /kloc-in the funny story of the 0/6th century, the frivolous knight picked up the road and stepped on it, held it under his arm and put his spear under the horseshoe; Humorous knights have gone through political careers of several dynasties before they were born, and so on. This kind of consciousness and expression technique gave Min Xihaosen the foundation for further inheritance, imitation and development. The Adventures of the Boastmaster is really like a fairy tale in Europe. The bragging and lying in the book belongs to a kind of relaxed art, which hopes to bring the audience or readers into a cowhide atmosphere, where human desires float and hope to transcend all time and space. Therefore, exaggeration and joyful boasting are nothing more than an eye-catching coat that sometimes changes color.

As a form of expression, boasting, lying, boasting and joking have a long history and ancient traditions in literature. Odyssey in Homer's narrative poems is a braggart, although he is different from Min Xihaosen in many ways. For example, the book Kingdom of Conspiracy is only partly due to his boasting hobby, and many other lies are conscious fiction. The characters there, such as the boastful soldiers, are strikingly similar to Baron Min Xihaosen. Sailors have always liked to brag about Daniel, and hunters still maintain the ancient Latin-speaking style to this day. Therefore, Heronemus von Minxihausen, Raspberg and Bilger did not rely on their own rich imagination. Such examples are really numerous in the history of literature:

There is a theme of "frozen sound" in Min Xihaosen's story included in Happy People's Guide magazine. Rasber and Bigger put this story at the end of the book as a wonderful ending, which shows their importance.

At the end of 1 century, the legendary Greek writer Plutarch (46- 120) said in his masterpiece Mo Ania that one of Plato's disciples or critics quoted Andy Farnese's speech. It turns out that Andy Farnas once joked that once upon a time, in a certain city, it was freezing cold, and sometimes people's words were frozen as soon as they fell, and they were frozen solid. Until summer, the frozen dough began to melt. Therefore, people can often hear speeches in winter in summer. However, times have changed, and this interesting theme of consciousness and language was later shelved and forgotten.

During the European Renaissance, Plutarch's theme of "frozen language" was thawed again. The French writer rabelais (1483- 1553) emphasized the topic of Andy Farnese-Plutarch. In his own way, he exaggerated the adventures in life. In Biography of the Giant, rabelais described a seagoing ship sailing on a frozen ocean. The sea is very rough, and the ship will sink. Suddenly, the passengers on the ship heard a noisy sound. There are men and women in the voice, old and young, and the noise of war is mixed in the middle. The horns are dense and the horses neigh, but the passengers don't even see what is in front of them. Baruch, a coward, was very scared. The helmsman explained to him: In the Arctic, there was a bloody war in winter, and all the noises, words and sounds floating in the air formed thick ice. Now that the ice has thawed in spring, all these noises, words and sounds are released. Another character in the book, Gu Ai, threw a lot of unfrozen frozen words on the deck. Strangely, these languages have different colors according to their respective categories. For example, dirty words are all yellow. Rabelais played a genius's imagination, and he made the solidified words vivid, visible, tangible and fantastic.

Most of Min Xihaosen's stories come from ancient European legends, and some of them were initiated by Bigger and Qu Brothers. For example, when Min Xihaosen was stuck in the mire, he grabbed his braid and picked himself up. This is a typical story of cowhide or lies. Similar consciousness and themes are often seen in fairy tales in Nordic countries.

Min Xihaosen's story is full of jokes and madness, but through the heavy absurdity, people see a little truth. As Voltaire (1694- 1778) emphasized, any disaster or misfortune will bring benefits. This is a western annotation on the consciousness of "misfortune comes from happiness, and happiness comes from disaster" in Chapter 58 of Laozi. Min Xihaosen turned many disadvantages in life into advantages, while hiding the value and meaning of life in a series of boring jokes and boasting. This is the reason why he hopes to jump out of the mud with braids. Perhaps, the literary value of The Adventures of boas is really nurtured here.