Item
Fables de La fontaine selon M. de Renusson
- Title
- en_US Fables de La fontaine selon M. de Renusson
- en_US Carnet Visuels #4
- Description
- en_US Language note: French
- Jean de La Fontaine
- Creator
- en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US De Renusson, Georges
- Date
- 2020-01-23T17:38:45Z
- 2019-06
- en_US 2018
- Date Available
- 2020-01-23T17:38:45Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2018
- Abstract
- en_US This little unpaginated booklet of 32 pages is one of the most delightful finds of a summer visit to Paris. Apparently Georges de Renusson (1916-1991) was a maker of models for a maritime museum in Paris. A really gifted cartoonist, he published apparently only one book. This partial facsimile seems to have been his transformation of a cheap book of texts of La Fontaine's fables done by drawing right on the pages of the book. He did this between 1942 and 1945. I'd love to learn more about this book and its discovery. His designs are delightful from start to finish of this partial reproduction. One notices the partiality when texts begun on one page are not continued on the next. The very first page opens out onto the winter world of the grasshopper's plea to the well-housed ant. Two pages later the old man runs from death, dropping pipe, hat, scythe, and both shoes! Four cartoons adorn TMCM, the last a rustic picnic under a mushroom. The fortune-teller's top-floor room under the slanting roof is well filled out with stove, cauldron, and beakers. The hunt that destroys the gardener's garden spills across the left-hand page from the right. The rats and weasels have a huge battle with cannons as well as swords. The ears of the rabbit do cast a shadow that stretches across two pages. On the very last page, without text, the pedant lectures away next to a floatable lifesaver. Will he ever stop? What wonderful imagination!
- Identifier
- en_US 11604 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Éditions solo ma non troppo
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- en_US PQ1808.Z9R46 2018 See all items with this value
- Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books