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Conflito e Intriga: Contos de Kalila e Dimna
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Os contos deste livro descendem do mergulho ancestral da humanidade nas tradições orais, nos tempos em que o “era uma vez” provocava uma entrada absoluta em mundos imaginários de histórias. Manifestações selvagens de música primitiva (provavelmente de flauta ou tambor), vozes, sotaques, mímica, canções e danças suscitavam em pequenos grupos – naquele tempo e ainda hoje – um vívido sentido social de extra-dimensionalidade. Atualmente, a nossa tradição literária de contar histórias, mais moderada, linear e asséptica, que se desenvolveu ao longo dos últmos 2.500 anos, é codificada por meio de partituras ou da palavra escrita. Há uma enorme diferença entre ler silenciosamente uma peça de Shakespeare ou absorvê-la em meio ao rebuliço de uma apresentação no palco. Os contos de Kalila e Dimna são ouvidos desde tempos mais selvagens, próximos à nossa era de caçadores-coletores, antes da agricultura, quando animais, sombras e espíritos pairavam ao redor. Algumas de suas antigas histórias de animais foram primeiro transcritas e depois reformuladas por poetas, monges e acadêmicos em cinco línguas – os Contos de Jakata, em Pali (450 BC?); o Panchatantra, em Sânscrito (300 BC?); em Árabe (750 AD); Persa (1505 AD); e na versão em inglês de Sir Thomas North, de 1570 (publicada quando Shakespeare era apenas um moleque de seis anos). Dois dos primeiros manuscritos do Panchatantra academicamente “re-construídos” no século XIX (bastante diferentes um do outro) estão diretamente ligados à tradição oral da humanidade de contar histórias fisicamente. Somos tão atraídos por suas histórias quanto pelo desconhecido das pinturas rupestres em cavernas pré-históricas. Aqui há insondáveis mistérios! O romancista mexicano Carlos Fuentes observou, em 1980: “As histórias maravilhosas de Wood deveriam estar ao lado do reconto de Italo Calvino dos contos populares italianos. Nenhum outro elogio se faz necessário.”
249 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 23, 2020
About the author
Ramsay Wood
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Extraordinary Voyages of the Panchatantra https://ramsaywood.com/media/
Ramsay Wood is the author of two sui generis modern novels which aim — with inter-connected frame-story narratives — to capture the ancient (pre-literate) oral story-listening drama of multicultural animal fables mimed and declaimed along the Silk Road since the time of the Buddha.
His two books blend The Jatakas Tales, The Panchatantra and the brief (fourth century BCE) role of Alexander the Great's Hellenization legacy in "bringing the Aesopian tradition to North India and Central Asia".
Wood's Kalila and Dimna Vol 1 — Fables of Friendship and Betrayal was first published by Knopf in 1980 as Selected Fables of Bidpai with an Introduction by Doris Lessing (subsequently the 2007 Nobel Laureate).
His Kalila and Dimna Vol 2 — Fables of Conflict and Intrigue was first published by Medina in 2011,
Paperback versions of both titles remain available in Spanish and French locally or via his website. In English and other languages they exist in Kindle or 2nd-hand editions.
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A Cat May Look at a King & eight other stories too tell your cat was first published as a hardback in 1984 by East-West Publications.
An updated Zirac Press edition (subtitled & SEVEN other stories to tell your cat ) — including one NEW tale and four fresh illustrations — was published (paperback & Kindle) in August 2023.
Extraordinary Voyages of the Panchatantra https://ramsaywood.com/media/
Ramsay Wood is the author of two sui generis modern novels which aim — with inter-connected frame-story narratives — to capture the ancient (pre-literate) oral story-listening drama of multicultural animal fables mimed and declaimed along the Silk Road since the time of the Buddha.
His two books blend The Jatakas Tales, The Panchatantra and the brief (fourth century BCE) role of Alexander the Great's Hellenization legacy in "bringing the Aesopian tradition to North India and Central Asia".
Wood's Kalila and Dimna Vol 1 — Fables of Friendship and Betrayal was first published by Knopf in 1980 as Selected Fables of Bidpai with an Introduction by Doris Lessing (subsequently the 2007 Nobel Laureate).
His Kalila and Dimna Vol 2 — Fables of Conflict and Intrigue was first published by Medina in 2011,
Paperback versions of both titles remain available in Spanish and French locally or via his website. In English and other languages they exist in Kindle or 2nd-hand editions.
******
A Cat May Look at a King & eight other stories too tell your cat was first published as a hardback in 1984 by East-West Publications.
An updated Zirac Press edition (subtitled & SEVEN other stories to tell your cat ) — including one NEW tale and four fresh illustrations — was published (paperback & Kindle) in August 2023.
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