La Fontaine: Cent Fables

Title

en_US La Fontaine: Cent Fables

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Boxed

Présentée par Pierre Daninos, Commentées par Claude Esteban

Creator

en_US Daninos, Pierre See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Trémois, Pierre-Yves

Date

2022-11-07T16:12:40Z

2022-07

en_US 1989

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:12:40Z

Date Issued

en_US 1989

Abstract

en_US Here is a 1989 boxed reprint of the 1963 original. Besides adding a box and changing the cover color to green, editors have taken some of the color from some of the colored illustrations (like "The Oyster" on 202) and may have changed the typeface of the fable titles. Otherwise, my comments on the original still seem to hold. This is a curious book. It puts around the fables a number of curious things. There are, e.g., a number of pointed, provocative little quotations about La Fontaine and his fables. Trémois' artistic contributions are not neat little rectangles but rather alarming designs that sometimes intrude into the text's territory. Among Trémois' better contributions I would list FS (39), "Le loup plaidant contre le renard par-devant le singe" (49), CW (68), "Les deux perroquets, le roi et son fils" (249), "Le chat et les deux moineaux" (274), and "Le singe" (the wife-beater, who reads a copy of this book, 294). There are several suitably daunting animal images including Rodilardus (92), Raminagrobis (182), and Bertrand (231). I am surprised to find an image of a frog devouring a mouse or rat as the illustration for FK (78). There are both a T of C and an AI at the back. Before that, on 297-315, there are comments one or two paragraphs in length on thirty-eight of the fables. Presumably these comments are from Esteban. This remains a nicely conceived book.

Identifier

en_US 13050 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/139226

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Sélection du Reader's Digest

en_US Paris

Subject

La Fontaine See all items with this value