{"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&#8217;s NYT review of the film is still available <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?_r=1&amp;res=9A0DE7DB1F3DF936A15755C0A960948260&amp;oref=slogin\">here<\/a>). In Germany there is still an odd interest in the man&#8217;s work, with a new biography recently out, and various editions of his work re-issued every so often \u2013 for the curious, here&#8217;s 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}]}}