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Title
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More of Aesop's Foibles: A Further Step into Literary Decadence (Volume 2)
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AFWR2
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Description
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Rabbi Walter Rothschild
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Creator
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Rothschild, Walter
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Date
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2023-09-20T15:17:03Z
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2022-10
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2022
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Date Available
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2023-09-20T15:17:03Z
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Date Issued
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2022
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Abstract
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This second volume of presently six begins with a witty comment on one critic's description of Rothschild's tales as "Kafkaesque." Rothschild agrees: "When one bears in mind that Kafka was apparently a manic-depressive confused Jew, with deep identity and sexual problems, was constantly sick and is now dead, then I think that sums up the quality of these tales precisely." The T of C shows that this volume's 235 pages have another 100 stories, numbered consecutively after the first volume's 100. I was determined to pursue stories fashioned from Aesop's but I found only one. I will try to report on five stories per volume. My first is #114: "The Boar." It has all sorts of fun with puns fashioned from that simple name, right down to the moral. Is that a typo in "then"? "It is better to keep your head as a Boar, then have your head hung on a Board" (33). I tried next the one Aesopic parody, "The Wolf Who Cried Boy!" (#166). It reverses the traditional fable cleverly and moralizes "No-one likes a Wolf who cries "Boy!" I enjoyed the last three stories in this volume. "In the Bag!" (#198) has fun with wordplay surrounding tea and how it gets into tea-bags. "A Saucy Story" (#199) is similar: about condiments in little sachets at cashiers in fast-food restaurants. The moral: "Licking leaking liquid Oelek liquor looks likely to lack long-term luck… Better seek Salvation through Salivation." The book's last piece is a visual delight through growing and then diminishing typeface. One watches an idea germinate and then be harder and harder to express. Good fun!
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Identifier
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13243 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Amazon
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Berlin
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Subject
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Walter Rothschild