Item
Strekosa & Mirabei: Basni
- Title
- en_US Strekosa & Mirabei: Basni
- Description
- en_US Language note: Russian
- Ivan Krylov
- Creator
- en_US Krylov, Ivan Andreyevich See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Vasilenko, Anatoly
- Date
- 2022-11-07T16:12:54Z
- 2020-12
- en_US 1984
- Date Available
- 2022-11-07T16:12:54Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1984
- Abstract
- en_US Here is an unusual 24-page 2-staple pamphlet (6½" x 9¼") for its excellent presentation of colored illustrations. What is unusual about them? First, they stretch to the edge of pages, leaving room for a few lines of verse in each pair of pages. Secondly, they cohere beautifully across the divide of left and right pages. Thirdly, they have an unusual character and style. The style has to do with the personification of the insects: human bodies with animal appendages. The character has to do with the unusual way that the colored ink interacts with the heavy pages. A good example is the way that the two characters interact in the snow outside the ant's home -- and then on the next page we see the grasshopper playing away with her band in a colorful summer world while other insects dance. The fable ends, true to the La Fontaine tradition, with a small image of the grasshopper trudging away in the snow. "You sang? Now dance!" The cover presents the two principal characters in happy summer activity.
- Identifier
- en_US 13147 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US rus
- Publisher
- en_US Veselka
- en_US Kyiv, Ukraine
- Subject
- Ivan Krylov: GA See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books