Le Meunier, son Fils et l'Ane

Title

en_US Le Meunier, son Fils et l'Ane

en_US éditions du chat perché

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Bourre, Martine

Date

2017-05-15T20:33:56Z

en_US 2016-10

en_US 1978

Date Available

2017-05-15T20:33:56Z

Date Issued

en_US 1978

Abstract

en_US I am coming to appreciate more and more La Fontaine's version of MSA. It loses the crescendo of other versions that finish with the most ridiculous effort: carrying the ass to market. Here the strategy, I think,of the poet is to make each effort a lunge in some direction, not in an ordered rise of ridiculousness. The last attempt turns out to be the most natural -- walkilng behind the ass -- and it still gets ridiculed. So La Fontaine's point is that, whatever we do, people will talk. Let them! The artist suggests nicely that this lazy ass liked being carried -- another shift from the more traditional version -- and so tookit ill that he had to carry someone. Soon he had to carry two! A clever illustration shows on 12 that the young man had to help his father get up onto the ass. The ass also turns to admire a butterly on 18. Good fun all the way around!

Identifier

en_US 11117 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/112961

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Flammarion

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole