The Unicorn in the Garden
The Unicorn in the Garden (English: The Unicorn in the Garden ) is a short story by the American writer James Thurber. The imaging of the history made at Thurber himself.
It is one of the most famous of Thurber's modern fables and appeared for the first time on 31 October 1939 in the magazine The New Yorker.
Content
A man sees a unicorn in his front yard and immediately goes to his wife into the bedroom to tell her that.
This looks at him sleepily and says. " The unicorn is a mythical creature " Then she turns back around. The man goes back into the garden and gives the unicorn to eat a lily. Then he wakes up his wife again, and says: " The unicorn ate a lily. " But his wife said they were crazy and threatens him to get him in the loony bin.
Then the man goes back into the garden, but the unicorn is gone. So he sits down between the roses and falls asleep.
Since the woman is standing up quickly and called the police and a psychiatrist. The police and the psychiatrist looked at the woman intently as this says " My husband has this morning a unicorn seen. " Let them tell even further, then gives the psychiatrist the cops a sign, they take the wife and plug them into the straitjacket. When her husband comes back into the house, they asked him the police if he had told his wife that he had seen a unicorn. But this answered shortly: "What makes you say that? The unicorn is a mythical creature yet! " In this statement toward the psychiatrist can bring the fierce scolding woman in an asylum. But the man continues to live happy and content.
When morality is Thurber following insight to the end of his story:
Others
The story was conceived by William Hurtz as an animated film in 1953 and in 1960 part of the revue A Thurber Carnival. In 1986, she read Peter Ustinov for the radio.
Manfred Triesch writes in the weekly magazine The time to the first complete edition of Thurber's fables in 1967:
Text output
- James Thurber: From the man who was holding her breath and other stories. Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn Verlag, ISBN 3- 2006 -X 8218-4566.