6 Fábulas de Samaniego

Abstract

Lively cartoons present TB; "The Bird and the Feather"; "The Worker and Providence"; "Flies"; "The Woman, the Fox, and the Rooster"; and "The Beauty and the Mirror." "The Worker and Providence" is about the napping worker hit on the nose by an acorn. Flies die by getting stuck in honey; humans perish in the prisons of the vices that dominate them. My prize in this 16-page pamphlet about 7" x 8" goes to the vivid picturing of the last fable. Before the text we see a young woman beautifying herself before a mirror, with a monkey next to her doing the same. On the next page we see a terrified woman and the monkey holding her paws before her own eyes. We turn the page and see the woman throwing a hairbrush into the mirror. The mirror is telling her the truth that, it seems, friends might not tell. This volume, by contrast with others in the collection, has a printer's design after almost every fable.