Aesop's Fables Re-Illustrated With Numerous Deviations from the Original Text

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables Re-Illustrated With Numerous Deviations from the Original Text

Description

John Boose

Creator

en_US Boose, John See all items with this value

Date

2022-11-07T16:12:31Z

2022-05

en_US 2014

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:12:31Z

Date Issued

en_US 2014

Abstract

en_US Here is a highly unusual book! The first thing to say of it is that John Boose and his friends had fun putting together this book! It takes fables to quite new and weird places -- and enjoys doing so. Sometimes there is a slight change in the text, as advertised in the title. More frequently, there is a significant "deviation" in the photo attached to the text. Often the deviation has to do with alcohol, as when the fox, frustrated at not getting the grapes, says that they are sour and adds "I should just go back home and have a delicious cocktail" (1). Before offering some examples, I make one last observation. By contrast with many innovative people transforming fables, Boose takes on a huge quantity of them. By my count, it is something like 286 "deviated" fables on 283 pages. The titles of the beginning fables give a sense of their wit. After "The Fox, the Grapes, and the Delicious Cocktail," we find "The Moose that Made the Golden Kegs," "The Thieves and the Toaster," and "The Dolphins, the Whales, and the Zombie Penguins." The photographs are generally humorously staged, often enough apparently at parties. There is a T of C at the beginning. The back cover continues the fun by doing a small print collection of apparently all the morals, including this one in the middle: "Attempt not impossibilities." Print upon demand.

Identifier

en_US 12986 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/139164

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US New Century Dada Press

Subject

Aesop See all items with this value