The Art of the Turkish Tale, Volume One

Title

en_US The Art of the Turkish Tale, Volume One

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Barbara K. Walter

Creator

en_US Siegl, Helen See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Siegl, Helen

Date

2016-01-25T20:14:54Z

en_US 1997-06

en_US 1990

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:14:54Z

Date Issued

en_US 1990

Abstract

en_US It has taken me many years to finally attend to this book. I suspect I believed that it really did not contain fables. I have been pleasantly surprised. There is more fairy tale in here than fable, with lots of jinns escaping from bottles. But there are fables. I will describe the first few I have found. The Uncontrollable Desire and the Irresistible Urge (44) exists in some form in some traditional fable collections. Two caravans meet, and there is quiet time for the camel drivers of one caravan to sleep and their camels to rest. A donkey insists on braying -- and thus waking up the drivers and initiating the next leg of the trip -- because, as he says, he has an uncontrollable desire to bray, and when he has one of those he pays no need to the consequences. The donkey comes along with that caravan but soon falls behind and is loaded onto a camel. At a narrow pass with a steep cliff, the overloaded camel tells the donkey that he has an irresistible urge to dance. The donkey knows he will fall off and tries to persuade him not to dance. The camel says that when he has an irresistible urge he never pays heed to the consequences. That is the end of the donkey! Nasreddin Hoca likes to say what he will do without adding if Allah wills (51). His wife admonishes him that those who fail to add that are punished. So it happens. Beat up and exhausted, he returns and knocks. When she asks who is there, he answers It is Nasreddin Hoca, if Allah wills. A new barber shaves Hasreddin Hoca and keeps cutting chunks of his cheek and sticking cotton into the cut. Halfway through the shave, Hoca stops him. I believe I'll plant wheat on the other side! A fisherman catches only a jar and opens it (60). A huge jinn escapes and says I shall eat you. The fisherman answers that, if he must, he must, but he wonders how anyone so large could be put into so small a jar. When the jinn shows him him, he closes the jar. A military leader reads all of his men's mail (69). Dursun receives no letters for a long time. Then he receives a wordless letter: very suspicious! Dursun says it is from his older brother. But why is it blank? Dursun explains that he and his brother had a serious quarrel and are not talking to each other. A brother is a brother, and so they remember each other with letters, but they still do not speak to each other! Good fun!

Identifier

en_US 9789751711410 (v. 2 : pbk. : Turkey)

en_US 8024 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83273

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Texas Tech University Press

en_US Lubbock, TX

Subject

en_US PL246.W35 1990 See all items with this value

en_US Turkey See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole