More of Aesop's Foibles: A Further Step into Literary Decadence (Volume 2)

Title

en_US More of Aesop's Foibles: A Further Step into Literary Decadence (Volume 2)

en_US AFWR2

Description

Rabbi Walter Rothschild

Creator

en_US Rothschild, Walter See all items with this value

Date

2023-09-20T15:17:03Z

2022-10

en_US 2022

Date Available

2023-09-20T15:17:03Z

Date Issued

en_US 2022

Abstract

en_US This second volume of presently six begins with a witty comment on one critic's description of Rothschild's tales as "Kafkaesque." Rothschild agrees: "When one bears in mind that Kafka was apparently a manic-depressive confused Jew, with deep identity and sexual problems, was constantly sick and is now dead, then I think that sums up the quality of these tales precisely." The T of C shows that this volume's 235 pages have another 100 stories, numbered consecutively after the first volume's 100. I was determined to pursue stories fashioned from Aesop's but I found only one. I will try to report on five stories per volume. My first is #114: "The Boar." It has all sorts of fun with puns fashioned from that simple name, right down to the moral. Is that a typo in "then"? "It is better to keep your head as a Boar, then have your head hung on a Board" (33). I tried next the one Aesopic parody, "The Wolf Who Cried Boy!" (#166). It reverses the traditional fable cleverly and moralizes "No-one likes a Wolf who cries "Boy!" I enjoyed the last three stories in this volume. "In the Bag!" (#198) has fun with wordplay surrounding tea and how it gets into tea-bags. "A Saucy Story" (#199) is similar: about condiments in little sachets at cashiers in fast-food restaurants. The moral: "Licking leaking liquid Oelek liquor looks likely to lack long-term luck… Better seek Salvation through Salivation." The book's last piece is a visual delight through growing and then diminishing typeface. One watches an idea germinate and then be harder and harder to express. Good fun!

Identifier

en_US 13243 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/143573

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Amazon

en_US Berlin

Subject

Walter Rothschild See all items with this value