Item
Fábulas Mexicanas
- Title
- en_US Fábulas Mexicanas
- en_US Colección cuentos y fábulas
- Description
- en_US Language note: Spanish
- en_US Edition of 2000 copies
- en_US Jose J. Fernandez de Lizardi
- Creator
- en_US Fernández de Lizardi, José Joaquín See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:38:47Z
- en_US 2000-03
- en_US 1997
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:38:47Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1997
- Abstract
- en_US There are actually two sections to this book, the first offering thirty-seven fables of Fernandez de Lizardi, and the second presenting seventy-four fables of José Rosas Moreno. The presence of the latter is surprising because he is mentioned on neither the title-page nor the front cover, both of which mention Fernandez de Lizardi. There is a T of C at the beginning, and there are seventeen full-page black-and-white illustrations along the way, as well as some smaller designs. A short biography on 4 indicates that Fernandez de Lizardi is known as the first Mexican fabulist. His fables are on the long side, running often to two pages of prose. I tried Aesop and the Animals (51-53); after hearing all their complaints, Aesop points out the negative sides of the lives of those they respectively envy but offers to make any exchanges they desire. After hearing him, no animal wants to change. Rosas Moreno writes shorter verse fables. Some of them seem to follow traditional Aesopic stories quite closely, like El milano, el cazador y la hormiga (114-16) and the very short El león y el mosquito (129). The conflict between progress and routine--and the victory of the former--is presented by a competition between a train and a horse (166-68).
- Identifier
- en_US 9688901695
- en_US 5548 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US spa
- Publisher
- en_US Edivisión Compañia
- en_US Colonia del Valle, México
- Subject
- en_US PQ7297.F37 F33 1997 See all items with this value
- en_US Jose J. Fernandez de Lizardi 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