[Aztlan] searching for book

John F. Schwaller schwallr at morris.umn.edu
Thu Mar 30 20:40:46 UTC 2006


I had suggested the Gonzalez Casanova not as a the book being sought but
rather as a similar work.  Thanks to Brigitta for the exact citation.



On 30 Mar 2006, micc2 wrote:
> Dear Brigitta,
> 
>  I too have that book, and the Aesop's fables are not part of its corpus.
> 
> I have located the book:
> 
> *FÁBULAS DE ESOPO EN IDIOMA MEXICANO Publicada por el Dr. Antonio
Peñafiel.*
> 
> And I will be buying the German book that my friend Walter has recommended.
> 
> Thank you to all who have helped me find this rare gem of colonial Nahuatl
> expression!
> 
> mario
> 
> 
> 
> Birgitta Leander wrote:
> > I have the book - /Cuentos Indígenas/ - by Pablo González Casanova in 
> > my private library. It is published by UNAM (Biblioteca de Filología y 
> > Lingüística Indígenas) in Mexico in 1946. If you give me some more 
> > specifications about the article you are looking for, I could take a 
> > look for it in the book mentioned by Professor Schwaller.
> >
> > Dr Birgitta Leander
> > Universidad de las Américas, Puebla
> >  
> >
> >  
> > On 3/29/06, *micc2* <micc2 at cox.net <mailto:micc2 at cox.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Dear colleagues,  I am searching for an article in  a book that is
> >     entitled:
> >
> >     "How Aesop Fared in Nahuatl"
> >
> >     I have an old photocopy that is very hard to read. I think the
> >     author is Gordon Brotherston and the book is called:
> >
> >     *Aesop in Mexico: die Fabeln des Aesop in aztektischer Sprache / A
> >     16th Century Aztec Version of Aesop's Fables, Text mit deutscher
> >     und englischer Übersetzung, aus dem Nachlaß Gerdt Kutschers
> >     herausgegeben von Gordon Brotherston und Günter Vollmer, 1987, 259
> >     pp.
> >
> >
> >     from:
> >
> >
> >     IBERO-AMERIKANISCHES  INSTITUT
> >     PREUSSISCHER  KULTURBESITZ
> >
> >
> >     Can anyone direct me to a copy?  (I do not read German so I cannot
> >     find the book using the university's catalog)
> >     *
> >
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John F. Schwaller
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SUNY Potsdam

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