6/10/2023 0 Comments Ship of fools book russo![]() ![]() The novel Fiddlers' Green Or, the Strange Adventure of Tommy Lawn: A Tale of the Great Divide of the Sailormen ( 1931) by Albert Richard Wetjen (1900-1948) learnedly unpacks the implications of this nest of topoi.Īs a controlling metaphor, the "ship of fools" has subtended many subsequent works. In the confused mosaic of sailors' lore, a cauldron of story which disintegrated rapidly with the coming of steam, the immense Great Ship or Ship of Fools, which transports dead sailors to the saturnalian afterlife Island known as Fiddlers' Green, is sometimes conflated with the Green itself (see Generation Starship below). The definitive literary realization of the topos is Die Narrenschiff ( 1494 trans Alexander Barclay as The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde 1509) by Sebastian Brant (1457-1521) there are many later (much improved) translations, as partially described in Aurelius Pompen's The English Versions of the Ship of Fools ( 1925). A traditional Fantasy theme dating back to medieval times, in which a ship – the Narrenschiff or Ship of Fools – carries all sorts of persons on an endless voyage in search of Utopia, providing an easily visualizable literal vehicle for allegorical Satire on the follies of humanity, the most famous such vehicle probably being "The Ship of Fools" ( before 1500) by Hieronymus Bosch ( circa 1450-1516). ![]()
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