EL LIBRO DE LOS GATOS SENSATOS DE LA VIEJA ZARIGÜELLA

T.S. Elliot, Edward Gorey, Juan Bonilla

• Editorial: Nórdica Libros
• Año: 2017
• ISBN:
  9788416830923
• Categoría: Littérature
• Categoría: Poésie

Estos juguetones versos del célebre poeta han entusiasmado a lectores y amantes de los gatos de todo el mundo desde que fueron reunidos para su publicación en 1939. Como Valerie Eliot señaló, son numerosas las referencias a los gatos en el trabajo de T. S. Eliot, pero fueron sus ahijados, particularmente Tom Faber y Alison Tandy, quienes desvelaron que tras el seudónimo de «Old Possum» (Vieja Zarigüeya) se encontraba Eliot, quien escribió gran parte de los poemas en cartas dirigidas a sus ahijados durante la década de los años treinta.En esta nueva y cautivadora edición, el conocido ilustrador Edward Gorey ofrece una reinterpretación de estos divertidos y espléndidos poemas en una variedad de memorables felinos, todos los cuales han sido llevados a la vida escénica en el conocido musical Cats.

The Ad-dressing of Cats

You’ve read of several kinds of Cat,

And my opinion now is that

You should need no interpreter

To understand their character.

You now have learned enough to see

That Cats are much like you and me

And other people whom we find

Possessed of various types of mind.

For some are sane and some are mad

And some are good and some are bad

And some are better, some are worse—

But all may be described in verse.

You’ve seen them both at work and games,

And learnt about their proper names,

Their habits and their habitat:

But

how would you ad-dress a Cat?

So first, your memory I’ll jog,

And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG.

Now Dogs pretend they like to fight

They often bark, more seldom bite

But yet a Dog is, on the whole,

What you would call a simple soul.

Of course I’m not including Pekes,

And such fantastic canine freaks.

The usual Dog about the Town

Is much inclined to play the clown,

And far from showing too much pride

Is frequently undignified.

He’s very easily taken in—

Just chuck him underneath the chin

Or slap his back or shake his paw,

And he will gambol and guffaw.

He’s such an easy-going lout,

He’ll answer any hail or shout.

Again I must remind you that

A Dog’s a Dog—a cat’s a cat.

With Cats, some say, one rule is true:

Don’t speak till you are spoken to.

Myself, I do not hold with that—

I say, you should ad-dress a Cat.

But always keep in mind t...