Fábulas Mexicanas

Title

en_US Fábulas Mexicanas

en_US Colección cuentos y fábulas

Description

en_US Language note: Spanish

en_US Edition of 2000 copies

en_US Jose J. Fernandez de Lizardi

Creator

en_US Fernández de Lizardi, José Joaquín

Date

2016-01-25T19:38:47Z

en_US 2000-03

en_US 1997

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:38:47Z

Date Issued

en_US 1997

Abstract

en_US There are actually two sections to this book, the first offering thirty-seven fables of Fernandez de Lizardi, and the second presenting seventy-four fables of José Rosas Moreno. The presence of the latter is surprising because he is mentioned on neither the title-page nor the front cover, both of which mention Fernandez de Lizardi. There is a T of C at the beginning, and there are seventeen full-page black-and-white illustrations along the way, as well as some smaller designs. A short biography on 4 indicates that Fernandez de Lizardi is known as the first Mexican fabulist. His fables are on the long side, running often to two pages of prose. I tried Aesop and the Animals (51-53); after hearing all their complaints, Aesop points out the negative sides of the lives of those they respectively envy but offers to make any exchanges they desire. After hearing him, no animal wants to change. Rosas Moreno writes shorter verse fables. Some of them seem to follow traditional Aesopic stories quite closely, like El milano, el cazador y la hormiga (114-16) and the very short El león y el mosquito (129). The conflict between progress and routine--and the victory of the former--is presented by a competition between a train and a horse (166-68).

Identifier

en_US 9688901695

en_US 5548 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81081

Language

en_US spa

Publisher

en_US Edivisión Compañia

en_US Colonia del Valle, México

Subject

en_US PQ7297.F37 F33 1997

en_US Jose J. Fernandez de Lizardi

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole