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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

by Lewis Carroll

Other authors: Maraja (Illustrator)

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Series: Alice's Adventures (1)

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I feel that I have already read both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and simply forgotten. The introduction to my Bantam Classic copy provides the background of how the books came to be written from stories told to the actual Alice and her sisters, greatly enhancing the reading experience because you can picture it in the structure of both books. It also contains the original illustrations.

Where Alice comes across primarily as a whimsical tale told in reaction to the surrounding scenery and the reactions of the girls as Carroll entertained them on a Sunday afternoon, Through the Looking Glass feels embedded with life lessons as Alice makes her way across an imaginary landscape, overcoming various tests and tribulations (much like growing up). The physical representations of the fording of streams within the narrative feels particularly like goals accomplished and rewards given.

Both books succeed because of the obvious interplay between two worlds, with Alice the child unintendedly displaying her limited understanding of the rules and manners of the adult world through the illogical, ironical characters she meets. The tyrannical Red Queen. The ever-late White Rabbit. Tweedledee and Tweedledum and their long tale "The Walrus and the Carpenter," who graciously take all the young oysters out for a walk and a talk; only in the poem's final sentence do we learn that the gallant heroes have actually "eaten every one" (an admonition, perhaps, not to trust seemingly helpful adults?). My favorite chapter, "The Lion and the Unicorn," relates Alice's interactions with the King as he incessantly takes Alice's words literally. When she tells him she sees nobody on the road, he is envious of her vision to see an actual Nobody who is out of the King's range. When his messenger tells him nobody is faster than he, the King contradicts him, saying that obviously Nobody is not swifter, else he would already have arrived with the message.

While the jacket blurb implies deeper meanings hidden within Alice—"a satire on language [and] political allegory"—I think the entire story is simply an educated man's amusement told to a friend's daughters, influenced and embellished by his adult awareness of the gap between his world and theirs.

* - I have posted the same review for each book, seeing how, for me at least, it is difficult to separate the two or read only one. ( )
  skavlanj | May 21, 2024 |
Alice im Wunderland ♦ Lewis Carroll | Rezension

Alice im Wunderland war das erste Buch, welches ich im Jahr 2021 gelesen habe und damit hab ich mein erstes Feld beim #Frühjahrsputzbingo abstempeln können.
Gabriela (Buchperlenblog) hat mich durch ihre Hintergrundgeschichte [AUF SPURENSUCHE] DIE WAHRE ALICE wieder auf das Buch aufmerksam gemacht. Alice im Wunderland gehört seit vielen Jahren zu den Klassikern unter den Kinderbüchern. Und da ich ja so einen kleinen Zwerg habe, der irgendwann die Welt von Alice betreten wird/kann, hab ich mir auch direkt eine Ausgabe der Anaconda Kinderbuchklassiker besorgt. Doch konnte mich das Buch überzeugen?



Meinung

Dass Alice im Wunderland mittlerweile zu den Klassikern allgemein und unter den Kinderbüchern gehört, ist keine Frage. An sich hätte ich das Buch auch nicht lesen müssen, da die Geschichte einfach allgemein bekannt ist und viele Male verfilmt wurde. Schon durch die Filme war mir klar, dass ich hier auf eine sehr verrückte Geschichte stoßen werde, doch wie verrückt es für mich dann wirklich rüberkam, hätte ich nicht erwartet.


Handlung

Wir wissen, dass Alice mit ihrer Schwester am Ufer eines Baches vor sich hin döst und dabei ein weißes Kaninchen in einer Herrenwest beobachtet. Neugierig folgt sie ihm und damit beginnt ihre wilde Reise durch das Wunderland. Alice trifft auf die Figuren, die uns allen irgendwie bekannt sind. Wir wissen, dass sie einen Schluck von einem Zaubertrank nimmt und kurz darauf auf die Größe einer Maus zusammenschrumpft, um kurz danach von einem Kuchen zu essen und die Größe eines Hauses einzunehmen. Anfangs war es mir nicht klar, doch Alice mimte vor all den Figuren eine sehr mustergültige Naive, während sie versuchte mit ihrer kindlichen Logik dem Wahnsinn zu entkommen.

Da ich wusste, dass es sich bei all den verrückten und teils sinnfreien Abenteuern um einen Traum handelt, waren die seltsamen Situationen auch annehmbar. Ansonsten hätte ich mich ehrlich gefragt, unter welchen bewusstseinsverändernden Mitteln der Autor stand oder ob er doch einfach nur eine sehr blühende Fantasy hatte.

Die Erstausgabe von Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland wurde erstmals 1865 (bei Macmillan & Co.) veröffentlicht und leider hat es sich auch genauso gelesen. Da es sich bei meiner Ausgabe um eine Kinderbuchklassiker – Ausgabe handelt, hatte ich gehofft, dass es doch eher an unseren heutigen Sprachgebrauch angelehnt ist. Denn ich würde die Geschichte meinem Jungen irgendwann sehr gerne vorlesen. Wie alles in der Welt entwickelt sich auch Sprache weiter und für die heranwachsenden und kommenden Generationen wird es schwerer und schwerer die Sprache von vor 1900 zu verstehen.

Schreibstil: ⭐⭐⭐/5
Charaktere: ⭐⭐/5
Plot: ⭐⭐⭐/5
Gesamt: 2,6/5

Fazit

⭐⭐⭐/5

Im Endeffekt tut die Sprache der Geschichte keinen Abbruch, denn Alice im Wunderland ist und bleibt ein Klassiker, auch für mich. Selbst wenn das Buch für mich nur 3 von 5 Sternen erhält, denn ich hab einfach ein wenig mehr von Alice als Charakter erwartet, ist es doch ein gutes Buch und ich habe jetzt auch so richtig Lust auf die letzte Verfilmung aus dem Jahre 2010.

Ein besonderes Schmancker’l waren die Originalillustrationen von John Tenniel, die das Buch ein wenig aufgepeppt haben.

©theartofreading.de ( )
  RoXXieSiXX | May 20, 2024 |
Psychedelia. ( )
  Elanna76 | May 2, 2024 |
Independent Reading Level: Grades 3+
Awards: Notable Children's Books (2000)
  anbaum | Apr 24, 2024 |
(Audiobook) "I think I should understand that better," Alice said very politely, "if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it." The same from me to Lewis Carroll! ( )
  bobbybslax | Feb 14, 2024 |
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All in the golden afternoon
Full leisurely we glide;
For both our oars, with little skill,
By little arms are plied,
While little hands make vain pretense
Our wanderings to guide

Ah, cruel Three! In such an hour,
Beneath such dreamy weather,
To beg a tale of breath too weak
To stir the tiniest feather!
Yet that can one poor voice avail
Against three tongues together!

[plus another five verses]
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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
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And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); ...
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcome little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!
'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earl of Mercia and Northumbria -"'
'You are old, Father William,' the young man said,
'And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head -
Do you think, at your age, it is right?'


[plus another seven verses]
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This is the unabridged "Alice in Wonderland", a separate work from "Through the Looking Glass" - also, please do not combine with any abridged edition or adaptation.
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До видання увійшли обидві прославлені книги Льюїса Керрола — «Аліса в Країні Див» та «Аліса в Задзеркаллі». Доречні і вишукані ілюстрації Владислава Єрка, як завжди, вражають.
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Down the rabbit hole,
Alice ponders madness that
unfolds strange places.
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