La Fontaine: Fables

Title

en_US La Fontaine: Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Mr. de Bellegarde

Creator

en_US Koechlin, Lionel See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Koechlin, Lionel

Date

2016-01-25T19:38:09Z

en_US 2004-12

en_US 2002

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:38:09Z

Date Issued

en_US 2002

Abstract

en_US Here are twenty-eight fables each situated on two or three pages and receiving one square illustration. The book is 78 pages long and about 6 x 7¼. The illustrations are decidedly contemporary, thought-provoking, and--might one say--geometric. Thus the first illustration puts the grasshopper as a guitar-toting beggar on a Paris metro. The fox who has the cheese is on the TV which the crow is watching (9); is he perhaps a televangelist? The frog shoots up his skinny arm with a hypodermic needle as he watches the huge ox hold up a set of weights (11). Does the dog, as he carries his attaché case, find the wolf hiding his face in a bread line (13)? The oak is just saying Pensée unique! to the reed as his face--the tree trunk--cracks into two (30)! The woodsman goes after death with a chain-saw (33)! The hare has wrapped his car around a tree and lies sprawling out its door, while the tortoise rides by on his bicycle (55). The heron's snail is a fast food place, the only thing open late at night (62). This book is fun!

Identifier

en_US 2020529971

en_US 5405 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80946

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Seuil jeunesse

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Fab 2002b 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