Item
Fablas de Bigot: 23 fables illustrées avec leur traduction française
- Title
- en_US Fablas de Bigot: 23 fables illustrées avec leur traduction française
- Description
- en_US Language note: French Occitan
- Antoine Bigot;, translations by Joan Jornot
- Creator
- en_US Bigot, Antoine See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Jornot, Joan
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:27Z
- 2024-08
- en_US 1991
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:27Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1991
- Abstract
- en_US Here is the first of two paperback books of La Fontaine's fables redone and fleshed out in Occitan, a dialect around Nimes. I found it after discovering the second volume and that that was a second volume. Together the two volumes seem to cover the whole output of Bigot's fables. Bigot died in 1897 and was apparently well known for his writing in Occitan. These are verse fables with facing translations into more normal French, with helpful line drawings about one to a fable. The beginning T of C is surprisingly inaccurate. GA, for example, is on 86-91, not 77-82. How do these adaptations compare with La Fontaine? I am guessing that they are written partially out of a delight over the dialect's particular gifts. They seem to include added place names in the region. I have read three, and the adaptations are different. GA is expanded to include a rather long commentary on the story as the creation of know-nothing scholars. "Give me farmers and their wisdom!" seems to be the tone of the main speaker. MM (104-109) seems much closer to its original, though the tone of the ending may be more admonitory than La Fontaine's compassionate "Who of us does not build castles in Spain?" 2W (134-39) gets into more detail about how the women take the man's hair and is more critical of them as after his money. "Perhaps they would not try to tear your hair out. But they would surely clean your money." 5¾ x 8¼". 167 pages.
- Identifier
- en_US 13626 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US oci
- Publisher
- en_US C. Lacour
- en_US Nimes
- Subject
- Antoine Bigot See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books