Giga: New Aesopian Fables for the 21st Century

Title

en_US Giga: New Aesopian Fables for the 21st Century

Description

en_US Robert W. Long

Creator

en_US Long, Robert W. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:01Z

en_US 2005-05

en_US 2004

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 2004

Abstract

en_US Here are one hundred fables in a large-format paperbound book of 125 pages. The foreword conveys misinformation, e.g., that Aesop met with Phadedo, Menippus, and Epictetus. The association with the latter is off by some seven hundred years! The author chooses the Japanese word giga or caricature because many of the characters in these fables represent common hopes, ideals, goals and shortcomings that shape society today (i). In a moment of deep and unsought irony, the author's expression of gratitude on i for a proofreader contains the typo particuarly for particularly. A beginning T of C identifies the issue involved in each fable. The illustrator for each fable is meticulously listed at the back. There is a good variety of black-and-white Japanese illustrations, generally not well presented here. The prints are dark and sketchy. Some, like the tree on 60, seem like digitalized images done at the wrong resolution. Others seem as though they have taken an image and extended one direction without extending the other. The stories range from half a page in length to two pages. For me the best of the first ten is #9. A mole father shows (misinterprets) the world to his son.

Identifier

en_US 1411621069

en_US 5991 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81409

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Privately printed

en_US USA

Subject

en_US PS3523.O464 G5 2004 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole