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  • ISBN: 0801846846
  • Category: Fiction
  • Author: Mr. David R. Slavitt
  • Subcategory: History & Criticism
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (November 1, 1993)
  • Pages: 80 pages
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  • Rating: 4.9
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David Rytman Slavitt (born 1935) is an American writer, poet, and translator, the author of more than 100 books.

David Rytman Slavitt (born 1935) is an American writer, poet, and translator, the author of more than 100 books. The Exhibitionist (1967) was a bestseller and sold over 4 million copies. He has also published popular novels under the names of David Benjamin, Lynn Meyer, and Henry Lazarus.

The fables of Avianus. Slavitt, a poet and accomplished translator, offers free, witty, and elegant verse interpretations of all 42 Latin elegiac fables by the once-renowned Avianus (c. . A pagan witnessing the.

David Rytman Slavitt (born 1935) is a writer, poet, and translator, the author of more than 100 books. The Fables of Avianus. Johns Hopkins University Press. Translations of 42 fables by Avianus show a world in flux in which humor and cunning provide the means of survival for animals. Foreword by Jack Zipes; woodcut illustrations by Neil Welliver. Johns Hopkins University Press

David Rytman Slavitt (born 1935) is an American writer, poet, and translator, the author of more than 100 books. Mr. Slavitt sees Carroll (Dodgson) through the narrow focus of Freudian glasses. ISBN 978-1-937402-23-5. The volume was selected for the Book of the Month Club and its sibling, the Quality Paperback Book Club. Author:Slavitt, Mr. David R. Book Binding:Hardback. Each month we recycle over . million books, saving over 12,500 tonnes of books a year from going straight into landfill sites. See all. About this item. Postage, Returns & Payments

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David R. Slavitt, poet, novelist, critic, and journalist, has published more than fifty books. His translations include the Metamorphoses of Ovid, The Fables of Avianus, the "Eclogues" and "Georgics" of Virgil, and Seneca: The Tragedies, Vols. Avianus, David R. Slavitt. This is a glittering new translation of the portion of the Hebrew Bible known as the Book of the Twelve Prophets, or the Twelve "Minor" Prophets. In the Bible, the books of the prophets are arrange. More).

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Flag as Inappropriate. Are you certain this article is inappropriate? Excessive Violence Sexual Content Political, Social. His first work, a book of poems titled Suits for the Dead, was published in 1961  . The Elegies to Delia of Albius Tibillus.

In book after book after book after book after book, he engages, amuses, delights, shocks, astounds . Avianus, The Fables of Avianus. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

In book after book after book after book after book, he engages, amuses, delights, shocks, astounds, annoys, rouses, arouses, and generally awakens readers from the torpor that the works of too many (unnamed here) writers have cast them into. Slavitt has been playing fast and loose with the literary classics since the early 70s when he brought us free adaptations of the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil, both of which present the original masterworks as filtered through – to put it in his words – the "radically improvisational" lens of the translator.

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The complete works of the early fifth-century Roman writer 42 elegiac fables are rendered into contemporary English verse by noted poet, translator, critic, and journalist Slavitt. The volume also features four new illustrations by artist Neil Welliver. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Reviews about The Fables of Avianus (2):
Vozilkree
Very good translation, PAC
Dagdage
Avianus's fables are retellings of the fables of Babrius's fables which are part of the Aesop and Indic fable tradition. Zipes' forward provides a very short history of the fable tradition. The translated by Slavitt is brilliant - the translation is loose in a way that translates the irony of the original. The fables as great fun to read - never the heavily preachy tone that often appears in translations. Here you will meet Charlie the Tuna; you'll find the crabby crab mother lecturing "Why can't you look where you're going, go where you're looking, pick up your feet, put your best foot forward, try a little harder, stand up straight, pay attention, put yourself sometines in the other person's shoes, ..." If you can't have fun with this collection of fables, don't be such a sourpuss, look on the bright side, did you get up on the wrong side of the bed? ...
Hamrl
These 42 Roman fables from the early 5th century A.D. are translated into a free-verse style which is quite readable. They remained popular into the Middle Ages, with their emphasis on hyperbole, the grotesque, and ironic twists.

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