The Judgment of the Crows: Parables and Fables
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Carter, Steven
Issue Date
2009
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Book, Whole
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I just reviewed Steven Carter's 2010 book After Aesop. Before I get into the book itself, I need to ask: Is this a Printed upon Demand book? Notice as you begin this book that its last thirty-seven pages are Improvisations upon Aesop's Fables. I started with these. They are good. Carter has a lively sense of fable. Does he quote himself when he does The donkey and the magic potion (121)? I hope so, because I have seen exactly this rendering sometime very recently! I begin to think that this book got him going on the other oneā¦. Carter is often somewhere between Aesop and Bierce. I give at least one prize to The vixen and the lioness: Always take quality over quantity, except in the case of only children, who, often as not, are spoiled rotten (130). Another prize goes to The lion, the fox, and the stag (135). It has a great surprise ending. A sampling of the early stories finds them provocative. In The Two Women (6), one woman consoles another betrayed by her lover: You will find another. The woman betrayed answers I am weeping for that time in the future when I shall have no cause to weep! One to a page, I find these fables and parables thought-provoking. Bravo, Steven Carter!
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Hamilton Books: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group