Shrek!

Shrek! is a picture book of the American cartoonist and children's book author William Steig, the by Farrar, Straus and Giroux released in 1990, the German -language translation of the book appeared in 1991 Gerstenberg Verlag. The children's book serves as the basis for the 2001 film released Shrek - The daring hero and the subsequent film series.

Content

Shrek is an ugly young ogre who is sent by his parents into the world to wreak damage there and scare people. His role as a harm -making ogre Shrek is just, even a snake that would be stupid enough to bite him, would get on the spot cramps and would die. He learns the move by the prophecy of a witch from an even uglier Ogerfrau he is looking to marry her. A knight are then adjusted in the way it is tinged by Shrek's fire breath and sunk with glowing armor in the castle moat. His minstrelsy "Your rosy pimples that warty callosities, and how your piggy eyes squinting at me that makes me stupid! " Convinced the Ogerfrau and so they are married. The book concludes with the altered fairy tale formula that they live together until their death and scare anyone who gets in their way.

Formation

William Steig created Shrek! 1990 at the age of 83 years. His son, the jazz flutist Jeremy Steig, had brought home to him the advantages of improvisation, which is why the drawings were drawn without sketch directly in ink and colored with water color. The resulting Krakeligkeit was enhanced by he made some drawings with eyes closed or with the left hand. Through this Krakeligkeit the style approaches to the drawings of children, to educate them " unfinished " for Shaping by this apparent.

The exploitation rights for the character Shrek acquired by DreamWorks Animation for Shrek film series. Steig was awarded the sum of $ 500,000.

Reception

Shrek! was discussed positively in various review media, including the library journals Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal or newspapers like the New York Times or the Washington Post. From Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal Shrek was! named the best children's book of the year.

Larger became famous for the book by the Shrek film series, in which the main character was both visually and in character sanded smooth. Visually, both the hair and the warts were removed and the claws evaded human fingernails. Shrek originally anarchic character was transformed into a thoughtful and romantic character who suffers from his ugliness instead of accepting it as the Shrek the children's book and enjoy.

After the literary scholar Brigitte Frizzoni are Shrek! classify as well as the cinematic interpretations in the genre of fairy tale parody. In contrast to the films but no parodic allusions found in the book on the media world.

Evidence

• Picture book
• Literary work
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )