Kattefortællinger

I 2022-2023 kører der to sæsoner med mange fortællinger hvor katte spiller en væsentlig rolle. Der er både tekster af danske og udenlandske forfattere, og flere tekster udkommer for første på dansk.

Eventyr og fabler

Grimm, Brødrene: "De Bremer stadsmusikanter"
Grimm, Brødrene: "De tre lykkebørn"
Grimm, Brødrene: "En Kat og en mus i selskab"
Grimm, Brødrene: "Fru Rævs bryllup"
Grimm, Brødrene: "Ræven og katten"
Perrault, Charles: "Den bestøvlede kat"
Æsops fabler om katte
Feveile, R. S.: "Den hvide kat", bearbejdet udgave af eventyret af d'Aulnoy
Kristensen, Evald Tang: "Per Snalter og den hvide kat"
Asbjørnsen og Moe: "Herreper"
Joyce, James: “Katten og Djævlen”
Kipling, Rudyard, "Katten der gik sine egne veje"

Antropomofiske katte

Caroll, Lewis: Alice møder Filurkatten
Jacobsen, J.: "Stationskatten"
Balzac, Honoré: "En afrikansk Løves Rejse til Paris"
Balzac, Honoré: "Stakkels Beauty. Skildring af engelsk Hunkats erotiske Gjenvordigheder"
Boeck, Christopher: "Rosa og Rosita eller den forelskede Kat"
Lovecraft, H.P.: "Ulthars katte"
Lovecraft, H.P.: uddrag fra "Drømmefærden til det ukendte Kadath"

Essays om katte

Repplier, Agnes: "Heksekatten"
Havard, Henry: "Kattens fremskridt" fra En katteskildring
Lang, Andrew: "Det eftertænksomme liv"
Chateaubriand, François-René de: "En påskønnelse til M. de Marcellus"
Montaigne og hans kat
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert: "Finfølelsens styrke"
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert: "Den omgængelige kat"
Holberg, Ludvig: "Epistel 120"
Nielsen, Jørgen: "Hundens og kattens sind"
Lovecraft, H.P.: "Katte og hunde"
Howard, Robert E.: "Udyret fra afgrunden"
Jerome, Jerome K.: "Om Katte og Hunde"

Menneskers møder med katte

Schandorph, Sophus: "Juleaften i hønsehuset"
Ethel Colburn Mayne: Manden i huset
Jerome, Jerome K.: "Dick Dunkermans Kat"
"Den grå kat i Colosseum"
Maupassant, Guy de: "Katte"
Helge, Rode, "Katte på Capri"
Aakjær, Jeppe: "Dorres Kat"

Katteportrætter

Twain, Mark: "Bakers Kat"
Zola, Emile: "To katte"
"Londonkatten" fra The Spectator
Repplier, Agnes: "Nero"
Chamofleury, Jules Husson: "Punchinello og katten"
Chamofleury, Jules Husson: "Killingen" fra Les Chats
Froude, James Anthony: "Perspektivet" fra The Cat's Pilgrimage
Janvier, Thomas A. "Shahen af Persien" fra Madame Jolicoeur's Cat
Michelet, Athanaïs: "En udstødt" fra Mémoires d'une Enfant
Gautier, Théophile: "Mit personlige menageri"
Loti, Pierre: "To kattes liv"
Jensen, Johannes V.: "Killingerne"
Fielding, Henry: "En kaptajns killing" fra Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
Repplier, Agnes: "En matros" fra The Fireside Sphinx

Store katte

Jensen, Johannes V.: "Tiger"
Jensen, Johannes V. "Tigersagn"
Balzac, Honoré de: "En lidelseshistorie i Ørkenen"
Doyle, Arthur Conan: "Den brasilianske Kat"

Fra kattens synspunkt

Nesbit, E.: "Maurices katteliv"
Sōseki, Natsume: "Jeg er en kat"
Sōseki, Natsume: "Kattens grav"
Saki: "Tobermory"
Zola, Emile: "Kattenes paradis"
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins: "Katten"

Gyserkatte

Poe, Edgar Allan: "Den sorte Kat"

Ubrugte tekster på dansk

Følgende danske og dansksprogede tekster fandt og læste jeg da jeg researchede sæsonen, men under den endelige udvælgelse kasserede jeg dem – typisk fordi de enten var for ubehagelige, ikke beskæftigede sig nok med fortællingens kat eller ikke var gode nok. Teksterne er nogenlunde sorteret baseret på min subjektive vurdering fra bedst til værst.

Jacobs, W.W: "Den sorte kat"
"Den udødelige kat. En amerikansk historie"
Dodt, Beatus: "Den gamle Kat"
Janssen, Børge: "Den sorte kat og den hvide sne"
Tjekhov, Anton: "En begivenhed"
"En Kattehistorie"
"En velopdragen Kat"
"Historien om en Kat"
"Tantes kat"
Jacobsen, Anton: "Johansens Kat"
Møller, Otto M.: "Enkefruens Kat"
Rosegger, K. P.: "Katten og kapellanen"
Scotchfield, Bertie: "Katte og mennesker"
Maupassant, Guy de: "Dronning Hortense"
Petersen, Nis: "Katten, der blev en Kone"
Poulsen, Frederik: "Hertugens kat"

Ubrugte tekster der ikke er på dansk

Jagten på kattefortællinger har ledt mig forbi mange (især engelsksprogede) tekster uden ophavsret, som jeg har samlet på denne liste. Jeg har endnu ikke nået at læse dem alle. Antallet af ord i dem alle tilsammen er 484.000 – næsten præcis samme antal ord som i Ringenes Herre-trilogien.

"A Parable for Philanthropists"
"The Cat Painter"
"What The Cat Thinks of the Dog"
"Why is there Enmity Between the Cat and the Dog"
"Why The Cat Sleeps Indoors and The Dog Outside"
Abdullah, Achmed: "Catnip"
Adams, John Coleman: "Midshipman, the Cat"
Alden, W, L.: "The Cats of Piacenza"
Alden, W. L.: "The Yellow Terror"
Alden, William Livingston: "Monty's Friend"
Bédollière, Émile de la: "The Story of a Cat"
Bell, J. J.: "Wanted—A Pussy-Mew"
Bennett, Arnold: "The Cat and Cupid"
Benson, E.F.: "Puss-Cat"
Benson, E.F.: "There Arose a King"
Benson, Margaret: Uddrag fra "The Soul of a Cat"
Bierce, Ambrose: "The Boy Who Drew Cats"
Budge, Sir Ernest A. Wallace: "Mike"
Burrow, George: "A Poor Black Cat"
Carruth, Hayden: "The Cat Motor"
Carruth, Hayden: "The Wild-cat Frightener"
Chambers, Robert W.: "The Repairer of Reputations"
Chambers, Robert W.: "The Street of the Four Winds"
Chesnutt, Charles W., "Frisk's First Rat"
Clark, Marvin R.: "Nellie and Tom"
Coffin, Roland Folger: "Archibald the Cat"
d'Aulnoy, Madame: "La Chatte blanche"
de Manoncourt, Charles: "Turkish Customs"
de Segur, Comtesse: "La forêt des Lilas"
Downs, A.S.: "Plato, the Story of a Cat"
Dumas, Alexandre: "Dogs and Cats"
E. F. Benson: "The Cat"
Ehrenstein, Albert: "Der Selbstmord eines Katers"
Ensign, Hermon Lee: "Baby and the Kitten"
Ensign, Hermon Lee: "Union Square Jim"
Fabre, Jean Henri: "The Story of my Cats"
Fernald, Chester B.: "The Cat and the Cherub"
Fernald, Chester B.: "The Cruel Thousand Years"
France, Anatole: "Hannibal"
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins: "Object of Love"
Froude, James Anthony: "The Cat's Pilgrimage"
Gautier, Théophile: "Feline Favourites"
Gordon, Sir Thomas: "Sir Robert Grant - cat"
Gorky, Maxim: "The green kitten"
Greene, Frederick Stuart: "The Cat of the Cane-Brake"
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert: "Cats"
Hamilton, Allan McLane: "Herr von Striempfell’s Experiment"
Hamm, Margherita Arlina: "The Cat Coquette"
Hearn, Lafcadio: "The Boy Who Drew Cats"
Hearn, Lafcadio: "The Little Red Kitten"
Hough, Lewis: "The Guardian Cat"
Hubbard, Elbert: "Our Emmiline"
Hubbard, Elbert: "The Black Cat"
Hunt, Leigh: "The Cat by the Fire"
Hyde, Douglas: "How the First Cat was Created"
Jackson, Helen Maria Hunt (H. H.): "Cat Stories: Letters from a Cat"
Jacobs, W.W.: "The White Cat"
Janvier, Thomas A.: "San Antonio of the Gardens"
Janvier, Thomas A.: "The Passing of Thomas"
Jerome, Jerome K.: "Jephson's Cat Stories"
Keller, Gottfried: "The fat of the cat" (fra "Katten Spejl")
Kipling, Rudyard: "Below the Mill Dam"
Kipling, Rudyard: "The Sending of Dana Da"
Knatchbull-Hugessen, E. H. (M. P.): "Puss-Cat Mew"
Leland, Charles G.: "How Diana Made the Stars and the Rain"
Lopez, John S.: "The Theatre Cat"
Loti, Pierre: "A Dying Cat"
Loti, Pierre: "Chiens et chats"
Loti, Pierre: "Les derniers jours de Pékin"
Loti, Pierre: "Noyade de chat"
Loti, Pierre: "Une bête galeuse"
Lover, Samuel: "Ye Marvelous Legend of Tom Connor’s Cat"
Mirbeau, Octave: "Le petit gardeur de vaches"
Montgomery, L.M.: "Aunt Cynthia's Persian Cat"
Mordaunt, Eleanor: fra "A Ship of Solace"
Mordaunt, Elinor: "The Yellow Cat"
Morgan, Lady: "Ginger"
Morley, Charles: Peter: "A Cat o' One Tail"
Nesbit, E.: "The Dragon Tamers"
Nesbit, E.: "The White Cat"
Oswald, Barron: "James in Wartime"
Paterson, Banjo: "The Cat"
Peple, Edward: "A Night Out"
Perez, Bernard: "Feline Instinct"
Phelps William Lyon: "The Cat"
Porter, Eleanor H.: "The Cat and the Painter"
Powell, George Herbert: "The Blue Dryad"
Puckett, G. A.: "Ten Kittens"
Pyle, Katherine: "Flora and Her Cat"
Pyle, Katherine: "Limpety"
Pyle, Katherine: "Little Brown Hen"
Pyle, Katherine: "What became of the kittens"
Ralph, Julian: "He Wrote to the Rats"
Ralston, W. R. S.: Krilof and his fables: "The Cat and the Nightingale"
Ralston, W. R. S.: Krilof and his fables: "The Cook and the Cat"
Ralston, W. R. S.: Krilof and his fables: "The Pike and the Cat"
Ralston, W. R. S.: Krilof and his fables: "The Wolf and the Cat"
Rameau, Jean: "Le Chat Nouveau-Riche"/"The Nouveau RIche Cat"
Repplier, Agnes: "Agrippina"
Repplier, Agnes: "Discipline" fra The Fireside Sphinx
Repplier, Agnes: "The Cat Triumphant"
Repplier, Agnes: "The Grocer's Cat"
Riggs, Arthur Stanley: "The Cat that was Fey"
Riis, Jacob A.: "Slippers. The White House Cat"
Roberts, Charles G.D.: "Hvordan en kat legede Robinson Crusoe"
Ross, C. H.: "Some Clever Cats"
Ross, C. H.: "The White Cat"
Ross, C.H.: "A Swiss Legend"
Ross, Charles Henry: "Of some amiable Cats, and Cats that have been good Mothers"
Roussel, Raymond: uddrag fra "Solus Locus"
Runyon, Damon: "Lillian"
Saki: "The Achievement of the Cat"
Saltus, Edgar: "The Top of the Heap"
Sandham, Agnes A.: "The Conscientious Cat"
Sass, Herbert Ravenel: "The Cat of the Cherokees"
Seton, Ernest Thompson: "The Slum Cat"
Simmons, Eleanor Booth: "Sukey"
Spencer, Herman: "Mark Twain and the Cat"
Squier, Emma-Lindsay: "The Totem of Amarillo"
Stoker, Bram: "The Squaw" fra Dracula's Guest
Stoker, Bram: "The Watchers"
Storm, Theodor: "Von Kindern und Katzen"
Tarkington, Booth: "Gipsy"
Tomson, Arthur: "An Artist on the Cat in Art"
Tucholsky, Kurt: "Brief an einen Kater"
Tucholsky, Kurt: "Die Katz"
Walpole, Hugh: "Den hvide kat"
Warner, Charles Dudley : "Calvin, the Cat"
Weigall, Arthur: "The Home Life of a Holy Cat"
Weyman, Stanley J.: "The Cat and the King"
Wiegall, Arthur: "The Home Life of a Holy Cat"
Wilde, Lady: "The Demon Cat"
Wilson, Anne Elizabeth: "Gato mio!"
Woodrow, Mrs. Wilson: "The Cat and the Countess"
Æsop: Bierce, Ambrose: "The Cat and the King" m.fl.