Item
Fables de La Fontaine avec adaptations créoles et sources
- Title
- en_US Fables de La Fontaine avec adaptations créoles et sources
- en_US Collection Jeunesse
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: French/Creole of Martinique
- en_US Présentées par Suzanne Dracius
- Creator
- en_US Dracius, Suzanne See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Choko
- Date
- 2018-03-05T17:13:58Z
- en_US 2017-08
- en_US 2006
- Date Available
- 2018-03-05T17:13:58Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2006
- Abstract
- en_US This landscape-formatted book is engaging particularly for two reasons. One is the arresting illustrations -- acrylics? -- by Choko, each a full page. The other is that, if I understand the French correctly, one of the four texts offered for each fable is a Creole adaptation of La Fontaine dating back to 1846 and composed by a slave for the entertainment of his fellow slaves. The other three texts are a contemporary Creole version, La Fontaine's original, and La Fontaine's source. The short introduction by Dracius raises a question for me: Are these adaptations "travestissements" of La Fontaine? My French dictionary lists not only "travesty" as a translation for "travestissement" but also "dressing up." The latter understanding makes much more sense to me here. Among the best illustrations for the twelve fables here, the ant in GA sleeps on a pile of cash (5). In FC, the crow holds a cd in his beak and the fox is listening to a music player with earbuds (9). WL gets a more traditional handling on 25. DS is applied to a dog with shoe(s?) in his mouth looking at exquisite shoes in a shop window (51). Choko's milkmaid is sassy (65)! There is, finally, a surprising image for "Women and the Secrets" (71). Fun!
- Identifier
- en_US 11223 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Éditions Desnel
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- en_US PQ1811.C8D73 2006 See all items with this value
- en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books