Now I just read a second time within a short time India trip of Percy Bonsall on my reader. If I quit now and then since you may need breaks when reading, I think about why I so love this book. It is not on any bestseller lists, the author is long dead and I do not know anyone who has ever mentioned to me. It was so Bonsels famous, his books are especially The Adventures of Maya the Bee been translated into all languages.
Waldemar Bonsels
But India trip is probably less known. It is a book to which I have a personal relationship. Because I think, just as there are people to whom you have a personal relationship, because they have the same attitude and the same sense of humor, there are books in which one finds oneself. Because then you think: So I also feel that I could have written her own support smooth, if I were a poet. Since you have the eureka moment. Other books may hold one or relates to information from them, are then called the blah-blah books.
But then there are books that touch you inside.
is a book so India trip for me. Other news from this book I love, because it is so sensitive to impressions are that give a natural experience.
Bonsall describes as his days at sea, the unceasing pounding of the waves against the beach and how he thinks that eternity must feel as a perpetual Repetition of the same. And as he turned his back on several turtles found on the beach, which are in the process of charring in the heat of the sun, because they can not exempt itself again from their deadly situation.
He helps them by those who are still strong, gives way back into the sea.
He later finds out that there are local fishermen that they have placed on their painful situation because they want to make with the tortoiseshell of animals money.
watched a whole day Bonsall, a large fly with one wing, trying with a flight of jump to get on a particular stone, always fails and landing on another piece.
This is what the poet is a parable of his own restless life.
are described in this book hardly acts of humans, but can still pass a lot of dramas.
breathtaking it is, for example, as Bonsall describes the struggle of countless rats against a handful of cats, which takes place in the room of the dilapidated house where he stays in temporarily.
One night he wakes up by any noise and observed the events.
There is a very brutal struggle for survival and instead of the rule in this house. For years the cats have prevailed until the rats have so increased that they become just by their mere majority are the fittest.
And now it comes to mutual slaughter in which the cats are in the minority and where their size and their strength does not help.
The drama then ends so that a snake shows up, trembling of the true ruler of the house, above all, man.
The poet sees everything that happens in nature, a symbol. And so will the mutual yourself fighting animals, the similarity with the struggle of people for land and greed for gold, for mineral resources.
To listen to but also the similarity, since animals kill each other not to each other to steal gold, or because they does not fit, that the other has a different or no God, but it's simply about survival.
Bonsall describes any cute animal world in which animals are just cute and what not to do evil, but the nature as it really is.
cruel and yet indescribably beautiful.
Addendum: There are
Waldemar Bonsels India trip on Ebay in a first edition of 1920, signed for 200 €.
A tip for those who do not know what else I can give for Christmas.
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