Small Tales Great Wisdom: Macedonian Sayings and Fables, Exercises in the Art of Astonishment

Title

en_US Small Tales Great Wisdom: Macedonian Sayings and Fables, Exercises in the Art of Astonishment

Description

en_US Apparent first printing

en_US Jim Thomev

Creator

en_US Thomev, Jim See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:40Z

en_US 2007-10

en_US 1999

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:40Z

Date Issued

en_US 1999

Abstract

en_US This is a book of wit and wisdom, proclaims the back cover -- rightly. It is a personal book with even a last few pages of sponsors and advertisers. The central section among its three great sections -- after Macedonian sayings and before Ancestral Voices -- contains sixteen fables on some forty pages (93-132). They range from the day that truth and falsehood forever severed ways to a woman who wisely -- and successfully -- proclaimed her husband a priest, to a man who was ready to sacrifice himself for his friend, to a spider who turned into a savior for some hunted victims. One wise fable recommends that a man praying for a cow ask that his neighbor get two cows and give him one. The praying man is not up to that challenge (104-5). An anticlerical fable tells of a drunken priest who refuses a hand up out of the ditch. One should never say 'give me your hand' to them, but rather one should say 'take my hand'! If priests do give someone their hand, it will always be empty and ready to be filled or kissed (113). To my surprise, the only traditional fable that shows up in this group concerns the marriage of the mouse-daughter (125).

Identifier

en_US 9780646368788

en_US 7793 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83048

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Black on White Publications

en_US Queenscliff, Australia

Subject

en_US GR255.S62 1999 See all items with this value

en_US Macedonian See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole