{"id":515,"date":"2008-02-25T03:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2008-02-25T03:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T11:37:00","slug":"blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IwnSQPl-J_I\/R8Kyfl3K_OI\/AAAAAAAAAfY\/h_RWrfcC9Hs\/s1600-h\/karlmay.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 178px;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IwnSQPl-J_I\/R8Kyfl3K_OI\/AAAAAAAAAfY\/h_RWrfcC9Hs\/s400\/karlmay.jpeg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170891577983958242\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today is the 166th birthday of Karl May, the favorite writer of my childhood \u2013 well, adolescence, and someone who still holds a strange attraction for me. But then he exerted that strange attraction over generations of German-language readers (well, boys, mainly), while never really making any noticeable dent in other countries, or rather in translation (most of which were rather abysmal indeed). Nor have I ever heard any of my sophisticated US or French friends who are into film and admire the relatively little known work of Hans-J\u00fcrgen Syberberg discuss the second film \u2013 i.e. the Karl May film \u2013 that is flanked by one on Mad king Ludwig and one on Hitler. (Vincent Canby\u2019s NYT review of the film is still available <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?_r=1&res=9A0DE7DB1F3DF936A15755C0A960948260&oref=slogin\">here<\/a>). In Germany there is still an odd interest in the man\u2019s work, with a new biography recently out, and various editions of his work re-issued every so often \u2013 for the curious, here\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karl-may-stiftung.de\/museum\/engl\/may.html\">link<\/a> to an English version of the on-line biography <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">cum<\/span> bibliography.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 166th birthday of Karl May, the favorite writer of my childhood \u2013 well, adolescence, and someone who still holds a strange attraction for me. But then he exerted that strange attraction&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}