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Cargando... The Cat Who Came in from the Cold: A Fablepor Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A philosophical tale that will particularly appeal to cat lovers. Billi (the Indian name for "cat") is an Indian feral cat who has been observing a family of "two-foots" and is curious to know what it would be like to live with them. He spends months travelling and questioning other animals but none has anything good to report about the way they are treated by humans. Despite this, Billi is not put off. "I would like to associate with two-foots but I don't want to do anything for two-foots. I must be allowed to come and go as I please." In other words Billi is typical of the cats who share our lives. ( ) A cute little fable about Billi, an Indian wildcat who is the first cat to decide to live with humans. Billi lives in the jungle and despite being horrified by the freedoms that dogs have given up in order to become 'pets' (a bad word in this book), he is irresistibly drawn to humans, or 'two-leggers'. He is also lonely, a strange state for a solitary animal, and longs for other animals or humans to play with. After a few scrapes with humans, who seem to know nothing about cats and care even less about learning about them, Billi leaves the jungle near Kerala and goes on a journey to meet different animals who may be able to to tell him something good about humans and help him decide whether he should try to live with them. Despite the fact that none of the animals he talks to really can tell him anything very good about their own treatment by humans, Billi still feels drawn to them. Returning home during the monsoon season, Billi has a few more bad experiences with humans, who misjudge his actions and scare him off, misunderstand his nature and try to confine him, and mistrust his intentions toward their family. But two children and a dog befriend him and after proving his good intentions, the family decides that Billi can remain with them. Thanks to a wise Indian scholar, who enlightens the family that cats can never be 'possessed' and locked away, Billi is given both the freedom he needs and the companionship he desires. And thus the first cat came to live with humans. I thought this was a pretty cute story, if a little forced at times. Maybe I missed the point, but I didn't understand why Billi would want to live with humans so badly after every animal, even those that are worshipped, has something horrible to say about human treatment of other creatures. The book also goes into a little treatment of Indian religious beliefs and history - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism - which I thought was interesting. Who knew that Masson was a scholar of Indian religious texts? I also enjoyed the perspectives of the other, non-cat animals, especially the mongoose. Is there really a person who has read "Riki Tiki Tavi" that doesn't love a mongoose.... This was a Christmas present from my two little kitties - how nice of them!
A Sanskrit scholar and former projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, Masson is best known for his sensitive exploration of animal psychology in books such as the bestselling When Elephants Weep. In this sentimental, didactic fable, Masson imagines how the lone nonsocial domesticated animal came to share hearth and home. Billi, an Asian leopard cat, lives in a mango forest in ancient India. He enjoys his independence, but he feels pangs of loneliness and curiosity about the "two-foots." He learns their languages—Hindi, Malayam and Sanskrit—and he can "see the appeal of south India's three major religions." Billi embarks on a quest to learn more about humans by discovering what their animals think of them. A water buffalo mourns being underappreciated; a parrot bemoans his cage; a mongoose tells a chilling story about human ingratitude. Humans worship you, Billi says to a cow. "Oh, great," the cow says. "That and five rupees will get you a chapati." Nine months of travel and no truly good word for humans leaves Billi undeterred, and, back home, he seeks out a young girl he'd often watched. It's not easy proving his good intentions or trying to be "the only animal to have a mutually satisfying relationship with humans." But Billi makes it happen in a story that's heartwarming but only for the passionate aelurophile.
In this sentimental, didactic fable, Masson imagines how the lone, nonsocial, domesticated animal came to share hearth and home. Billi, an Asian leopard cat, lives in a mango forest in ancient India. He enjoys his independence, but he feels pangs of loneliness and curiosity about the “two-foots.” He learns their languages - Hindi, Malayam and Sanskrit - and he can “see the appeal of south India's three major religions.” Billi embarks on a quest to learn more about humans by discovering what their animals think of them. A water buffalo mourns being underappreciated; a parrot bemoans his ca≥ a mongoose tells a chilling story about human ingratitude. Billi reminds a cow that it's worshipped by humans. “Oh, great,” the cow says. “That and five rupees will get you a chapati.” Nine months of travel and no truly good word for humans leaves Billi undeterred and, back home, he seeks out a young girl he'd often watched. It's not easy proving his good intentions or trying to be “the only animal to have a mutually satisfying relationship with humans,” but Billi makes it happen in a story that's heartwarming not only for the passionate cat fan but for all readers. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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