La Fontaine: Cent Fables

Title

en_US La Fontaine: Cent Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US First edition

en_US Présentée par Pierre Daninos, Commentées par Claude Esteban

Creator

en_US Daninos, Pierre See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Trémois, Pierre-Yves

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:28Z

en_US 2000-09

en_US 1963

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:28Z

Date Issued

en_US 1963

Abstract

en_US This is a curious book. It puts around the fables a number of curious things. There are, e.g., a number of pointed, provocative little quotations about La Fontaine and his fables. There is Trémois' art, sometimes line drawings, but at other times colored illustrations. These are not neat little rectangles but rather designs that intrude into the text's territory. Among Trémois' better contributions I would list FS (39), Le loup plaidant contre le renard par-devant le singe (49), CW (68), Les deux perroquets, le roi et son fils (249), Le chat et les deux moineaux (274), and Le singe (the wife-beater, who reads a copy of this book, 294). There are several suitably daunting animal images including Rodilardus (92), Raminagrobis (182), and Bertrand (231). I am surprised to find an image of a frog devouring a mouse or rat as the illustration for FK (78). There are both a T of C and an AI at the back. Before that, on 297-315, there are comments one or two paragraphs in length on thirty-eight of the fables. Presumably these comments are from Esteban. This is a nicely conceived book. The outside of the spine has been lost. Because both copies have defects, I will keep them both in the collection.

Identifier

en_US 3735 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79085

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Selection du Reader's Digest

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A3 D36 1963 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