Folk Tale
Gesture of Death
Translated From
*Le Jardinier et le Mort
Author | Jean Cocteau |
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Book Title | Le Grand Écart |
Publication Date | 1923 |
Language | French |
Other Translations / Adaptations
Text title | Language | Author | Publication Date |
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The gardiner and Death | English | Robert McConeghy | 2016 |
El Gesto de la Muerte | Spanish | _ | _ |
Language | English |
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Origin | France |
A young Persian gardener tells its prince:
—Save me! I found to the Death this morning. A gesture of threat did me. This night, by miracle, wanted to be in Ispahan.
The kind prince I lend him his horses. In the afternoon, the prince finds to the Death and he asks:
—This morning, why did you do our gardener a gesture of threat?
—It was not a gesture of threat -responds him- but a gesture of surprise. Therefore it saw him far from Ispahan this morning and I should take it this night in Ispahan.
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