Fables from Trastevere

Title

en_US Fables from Trastevere

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Italian

en_US #6 of 50 hardbound copies

en_US Translations by Blossom Kirschenbaum from verses by Trilussa

Creator

en_US Kirschenbaum, Blossom (translator) See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:29:19Z

en_US 1999-04

en_US 1976

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:29:19Z

Date Issued

en_US 1976

Abstract

en_US The introduction rightly says that Trilussa uses fables less for instruction than for revelation. These rhymed verse offerings are presented bilingually on facing pages, with the Italian on the left and the English on the right. Only a few move onto a second page. Two offerings are never crowded onto one page. There are twenty-seven offerings on sixty pages. My sense is that neither the author nor the translator would want to claim that all the works here are fables. Fables and other poems probably captures the collection well. The sentiments are strongly anti-government and anti-war. Notice TMCM on 39: No trap ever has rich mice in it! The most intriguing pieces for the fable researcher are probably: The Fly and the Spider (7); Teaching (11); The Sheep (15); The White Bear (21); and The Ape (23). Somehow I had feared Trilussa. I find these works much more accessible than I would have thought. The book had a total run of six hundred copies, of which apparently five hundred and fifty were paperbound. Trilussa died in 1950. This copy is also inscribed by Kirschenbaum at Thanksgiving, 1976 with a lovely pun: for Jessan and Alfred, good neighbors, dear friends, and artists in their own write, with love from Blossom.

Identifier

en_US 915176130

en_US 5198 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80768

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Pourboire Press

en_US Woods Hole, MA

Subject

en_US PQ4841.A46 T313 1976 See all items with this value

en_US Trilussa (Carlo Alberto Salustri) See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole