Lo Zoo della Favola/Fables from the Zoo

Title

en_US Lo Zoo della Favola/Fables from the Zoo

en_US Il mondo della favola

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Italian

en_US Çlirim Muça; English translation by Besjana Gorreja and Myfanwy Woods-Jack

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Biletta, Valentina

Date

2016-01-25T15:47:37Z

en_US 2013-06

en_US 2011

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:47:37Z

Date Issued

en_US 2011

Abstract

en_US Here is a surprising book. This paperback, almost square in format, presents original fables by Çlirim Muça, whose published works include Cento e una favola. Seventy-two pages present thirty-three fables, each in a two-page spread including on the left a rough painting and on the right both an Italian and an English text. The paintings are in an unusual style somewhere between linocut and finger-painting. The fables are good contemporary attempts at animal fables. In only one case do I find Muça employing a traditional fable quite intact. Forgiveness on 35 is the standard story of confessed mortal sinners including the lion punishing the peccadillo-committing donkey. I find several fables quite fetching. The Donkey and His Friends (9) has the donkey teased because he has to work hard to carry water for major feasts. He says that he feels bad until he comes back to the stable to find that the calf, pig, and sheep are no longer there. The young elephant overthrows the old king elephant and has the scene carved on his tusks. The old elephant returns and fights, and the usurper's carved tusks break (47). A fox changes jobs and conducts a survey by telephoning the hare, who graciously describes her favorite tunnel, her dietary habits and her leisure time (55). The next morning the fox shows up outside the hare's favorite tunnel and eats her! The translation falls down a couple of times: a man and a fox met one again (41) and a rabbit on 71 asks a fox How did you found me out? That story, of a rabbit in a lion's skin, has in my opinion a slim chance of working.

Identifier

en_US 9905 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76715

Publisher

en_US Albalibri Editore

en_US Rosignano Marittimo

Subject

en_US PQ4220.F2M83 2011 See all items with this value

en_US Çlirim Muça See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole