Item
A Modern Fable
- Title
- en_US A Modern Fable
- Description
- en_US First edition
- en_US Jim Schembri
- Creator
- en_US Schembri, Jim See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Dixon, Liz
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:02:53Z
- en_US 1996-07
- en_US 1995
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:02:53Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1995
- Abstract
- en_US Here are fifty-two thought provoking one-page or two-page contemporary stories. I am not sure whether they qualify as fables. They are short past-tense narratives inviting perception. As against traditional fables, these stories tend to involve a kind of particularity and a kind of magic. The particularity comes, e.g., in naming. Even a cruise missile has a proper name (Kevin). The magic comes in cruise missiles talking to each other, or in the devil sending a person back to life. There is something here that is uneasy with contemporary technology. Among the best that I have seen in the first half are The Urban Terrorist (13), The Editing Suite (19), and Glass of Water (31). Each story gets a black-and-white headpiece. I enjoy reading these! There is some real wit here, and it often provokes thinking.
- Identifier
- en_US 0207189064
- en_US 4133 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Angus & Robertson: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia)
- en_US Pymble, Sydney, NSW
- Subject
- en_US PN6178.A8 S33 1995 See all items with this value
- en_US Jim Schembri See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books