The Unbroken Web: Stories and Fables

Title

en_US The Unbroken Web: Stories and Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Richard Adams

Creator

en_US Adams, Richard See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Gilbert, Yvonne

Date

2016-01-25T19:39:13Z

en_US 1998-10

en_US 1980

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:39:13Z

Date Issued

en_US 1980

Abstract

en_US By the author of Watership Down, this book presents first-person narration of some nineteen folktales. A specific narrator tells the story to a group of hearers in a specific time and place. As dreams express something to an indvidual, folktales express something to us; for Adams, folktales are collective dreams. The unbroken web is a sphere that soaks up, transmutes, and is charged with human experience…. The storyteller reaches up and brings down a part of that sphere and then releases it, and it springs back and continues in rotation. However, when hearing or reading the stories, we should not be preoccupied with meaning. Some meanings may have disappeared; today, subconscious and psychological meanings may be especially perceptible. But the tales will outlast their meanings. The unbroken web is impenetrable. The first of the stories, Cat in the Sea, is a version of the I left my liver at home story. As Gilbert's illustration for The Giant Eel shows, some of the stories touch on deep issues of sexuality, conflict, and survival. I also read and enjoyed The Mice in the Corn and The Iron Wolf. Adams is right: these stories touch on deep issues and experiences. The four I read move well beyond fable into well presented folktale. The colored illustration for The Iron Wolf (100-101) may be one of the strongest. The book was published in England as The Iron Wolf and Other Stories.

Identifier

en_US 0517542315

en_US 5649 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81167

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Crown Publishers

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PR6051.D345 U5 1980 See all items with this value

en_US Richard Adams See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole