Item
New York Fables
- Title
- en_US New York Fables
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Original language: pol
- en_US Andrzej Czeczot; Translated by Michael Kott
- Creator
- en_US Czeczot, Andrzej See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Czeczot, Andrzej
- en_US Foreword by Paul Davis
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:50:04Z
- en_US 2005-08
- en_US 1990
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:50:04Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1990
- Abstract
- en_US This is a strange, weird, captivating book. I read it all the way through. It is a cartoon parody-history of New York City. The cartoons are full-page landscape black-and-white illustrations; these are large, since the book is 12 x 9. Paul Davis' foreword rightly speaks of a slyly surreal, overwhelmingly humane imagination. The first chapter, Indian Summer, presents the first two inhabitants. They built the Hut of Man, and ever since then this island has been known as Manhattan. Where Are You From? is a favorite chapter of mine. Its first illustration uses maps as the background design from which the chests and heads of two people are formed. I find it very clever! Czeczot gives a delightful chapter to the birth of the subway. Here one can see a shark using the subway going through the East River. Uptown is another favorite. Do not miss the cartoon of the new Adam and Eve in their penthouse. Eve, older but in a bikini, is about to accept the apple from the serpent. These are not fables, but they are fun! This copy includes a small yellow pamphlet with the original Polish texts for each of the chapters.
- Identifier
- en_US 8385061045
- en_US 6001 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Verba
- en_US Chotomów, Poland
- Subject
- en_US PG7162.Z357 N413 1990 See all items with this value
- en_US Andrzej Czeczot 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