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Loading... La oveja negra y demás fábulas (original 1969; edition 1994)by Augusto Monterroso
Work InformationThe Black Sheep and Other Fables by Augusto Monterroso (1969)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 36/2021. This is a collection of very short fables. They ask questions such as "Was Penelope weaving while she waited for Odysseus to stop travelling or was Odysseus travelling while he waited for Penelope to stop weaving?" and "If faith moves mountains then would fewer people die in landslides if we abandoned our faiths?" Clever, witty, amusing. Readers who didn't receive a classical education might find a few glancing references to Aesop or Horace whooshing over their heads but Monterroso mostly uses ideas familiar to inheritors of "Western" education, e.g. the lion as king, the wise owl, the cunning vixen, etc. ( ) A bunch of short snippets in the vein of Borges' 'Imaginary beings'--or sometimes even a little Calvino-ish. Most of these light satires center around animals of one sort or another. Anyway at face value they can easily be taken as harmless but Monterroso has a way of subtly inserting social comment to give it that little extra punch. Not an easy book to find out there but you can definitely do a lot worse. no reviews | add a review
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Imagine Alice having tea with Borges' fantastic bestiary. Imagine Jonathan Swift and James Thurber exchanging notes. What if a frog from Calaveras County had really read Mark Twain? Augusto Monterroso has achieved this and more with La oveja negra y demas fabulas. No library descriptions found. |
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