L'Ineffable la Fontaine revisité

Title

en_US L'Ineffable la Fontaine revisité

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Grains de sel: Gilbert Salachas

Creator

en_US Arnaud, François See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Arnaud, François

en_US Klein, Préface: Gérard (Essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:20Z

en_US 2004-07

en_US 2001

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:20Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

Abstract

en_US I am indebted to John for finding me this outstanding work. It combines imagination of various sorts. It presents forty-one fables of La Fontaine and does several things with each. First it offers a delightful line-drawing by Arnaud, each drawing made without lifting the pen. In the very first (10), the wolf towers over the lamb. Sweeping lines draw together the fox and the crow (14). One line includes the pail, the pig, the cow, and the chicken in MM (18). Other outstanding illustrations include The Lion in Love (44), The Lion and the Mosquito (58), and TMCM (74). The other gift to each La Fontaine text is one of Salachas' grains of salt. These are, as far as I can perceive, contemporary replays of the fables. Thus for OR, a resistance leader ridicules a new young woman in the movement, but when the Nazis come, it is the leader who talks and not the woman (13). For FC, two rascals stand under a rich kid's balcony and ask him if he can play his new harmonica without hands (15)! For La Fontaine's fable on the ass carrying a sacred object, Salachas offers the story of an unattractive thirty-year old woman who suddenly turns heads, only to realize late in the day that she threw on a tee-shirt depicting Marilyn Monroe (29)! For each poem a source is offered, like Aesop, Horace, or Phaedrus. After every few pages, there is also a pochette surprise, something like a lucky bag or even a grab-bag. One of them presents a student essay correcting everything that is wrong with La Fontaine's FC (16-17). There are also pages of hommage to great film directors. One of the main benefits of this collection is to find and bring together the sort of wit that Aesopic fables unleash in people. This book is a great example! I find this book so important that as I am reviewing it, I have purchased a second copy. Unfortunately, the binding of the Baxter copy is already loosening at its top. Since it is signed by Salachas, I will keep the second copy in the collection.

Identifier

en_US 9782903823177

en_US 4968 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80565

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Atelier Akimbo

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808 .A2 2001 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole