Aesop in Mexico

Title

en_US Aesop in Mexico

en_US Stimmen Indianischer Vólker, Volume III

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Trilingual: Nahuatl/German/English

en_US Gerdt Kutscher, edited by Gordon Brotherston and Günter Vollmer

Creator

en_US Brotherston, Gordon See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:50Z

en_US 1993-10

en_US 1987

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:50Z

Date Issued

en_US 1987

Abstract

en_US A very nicely produced sideways book. Basically trilingual, it provides the Nahuatl text of the forty-seven fables, with German and English translations, illustrations from Mexico at the same time, notes and bibliography. T of C on 52-55. Four indices (Latin, Nahuatl, German, and English) on 256. The very good introduction led me to expect more differences from Aesop, for which the almost certain source is the Accursiana. Some of the transformations include the following. The snowbound condition of the farmer in #14 is described this way: A man was cut off on his field, I don't know, for what reason. The fox becomes a coyote, the peacock a quetzal-bird, the cock a turkey, and the lion a jaguar. The Nahuatl seizes on every opportunity for dialogue and direct speech. This presentation of some of the fables makes them more intelligible to me (particularly #22 and #33), but #4 I still do not understand. In #6 the statue (of a beautiful female) lacks a heart, as the coyote caressing it finds out. The Hares and the Frogs (#37) may be the best fable here, well told, well expanded, strong psychologically. There are pleasant little designs on the left-hand pages, usually not of fables but of items mentioned in the fables. Fables against the rich seem strong here; gold for the Aztecs was God-shit !

Identifier

en_US 3786115095

en_US 1846 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77412

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Gebr. Mann Verlag

en_US Berlin

Subject

en_US PA3855.A9 K8 1987 See all items with this value

en_US yMe See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole