Italian Fables

Title

en_US Italian Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Italo Calvino, translated from the Italian by Louis Brigante

Creator

en_US Calvino, Italo

Contributor

en_US Train, Michael

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:56Z

en_US 1991-10

en_US 1959

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:56Z

Date Issued

en_US 1959

Abstract

en_US Really a set of oral Italian folk tales, as the preface itself (x) comes close to saying. Perhaps fiabe has a different range in Italian literary criticism from fable's range in English. A perusal of the first five stories shows that they are about the tricks and scams people play on each other. The stories are sometimes curiously not successful or coherent in a traditional way. What is, for example, the upshot of The Barber's Clock (8)? Or why does Giovannino the Fearless (10) include its suprising last sentence? The first eleven lines on 21 are mixed up by the printer. The Palace Mouse and the Field Mouse (136) is a genuine fable but is different from the traditional TMCM. It starts with terror in the palace and ranges only as far as the garden. When they return to the palace to see that mouse's uncle, the cat captures that mouse while the field mouse has been waiting at the window sill. Hearing Ungk! shrieked, the field mouse surmises a hostile reception and leaves. The paperbound version by Collier is under 1961.

Identifier

en_US 1871 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77437

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Orion Press

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PQ4199.E5 C3 1959

en_US Italian

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole