Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa.

Title

en_US Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Peter Beard

Creator

en_US Beard, Peter H See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Dinesen, Isak

en_US Onassis, Jacqueline Bouvier (Essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T16:08:26Z

en_US 2002-11

en_US 1975

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:08:26Z

Date Issued

en_US 1975

Abstract

en_US A weird and wonderful find! I noticed the book several times and finally took it off the shelf. What a surprise when I found a chapter of fables! What we have here is the product of a complex process. Kamante Gatura related the tales to Beard, who transcribed them and gave them to Kamante's sons to translate and then to write out by hand. The final chapter claims to be Kamante's versions of some twenty-one fables that Dinesen told. Several, like FG and OF, seem to be heavily dependent on Caxton, but then OF here ends with a bursting frog, whereas Caxton had the ox step on the frog. Are the charming, simple watercolors illustrating them really Kamante's own? The best of the illustrations for me are OF, GA, FK, The Antelope, the Monkey, and the Leopard, and TH. Two things are especially charming here: the scriptos (or whatever handwritten typos are), and the transposition of animals; thus Piraeus becomes Mombasa, and The Fox and the Eagle becomes The Jackal and the Vulture. A real favorite of mine!

Identifier

en_US 151530807

en_US 1992 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77554

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

en_US New York

Subject

en_US DT433.542 .K35 1975 See all items with this value

en_US Collection See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole