Item
Italian Fables
- Title
- en_US Italian Fables
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Italo Calvino, translated from the Italian by Louis Brigante
- Creator
- en_US Calvino, Italo See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Train, Michael
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:07:56Z
- en_US 1991-10
- en_US 1959
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:07:56Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1959
- Abstract
- en_US Really a set of oral Italian folk tales, as the preface itself (x) comes close to saying. Perhaps fiabe has a different range in Italian literary criticism from fable's range in English. A perusal of the first five stories shows that they are about the tricks and scams people play on each other. The stories are sometimes curiously not successful or coherent in a traditional way. What is, for example, the upshot of The Barber's Clock (8)? Or why does Giovannino the Fearless (10) include its suprising last sentence? The first eleven lines on 21 are mixed up by the printer. The Palace Mouse and the Field Mouse (136) is a genuine fable but is different from the traditional TMCM. It starts with terror in the palace and ranges only as far as the garden. When they return to the palace to see that mouse's uncle, the cat captures that mouse while the field mouse has been waiting at the window sill. Hearing Ungk! shrieked, the field mouse surmises a hostile reception and leaves. The paperbound version by Collier is under 1961.
- Identifier
- en_US 1871 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Orion Press
- en_US NY
- Subject
- en_US PQ4199.E5 C3 1959 See all items with this value
- en_US Italian 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