Le Treizieme Livre des Fables

Title

en_US Le Treizieme Livre des Fables

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US #440 of 900

en_US José Corti

Creator

en_US Corti, José See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US de Mourgues, Odette (Preface)

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:54Z

en_US 2003-06

en_US 1962

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:54Z

Date Issued

en_US 1962

Abstract

en_US I found some surprising information on Wikipedia. José Corti is a book shop and publishing house located in Paris and was founded in 1925. It is named after its founder, José Corticchiato (1895-1984); it is one of France's most prestigious and low-profile independent publishing houses. José Corticchiato started his business by publishing the work of his surrealist friends, including André Breton, Paul Éluard, and Louis Aragon. José Corti's book shop is located in the Latin Quarter in Paris. Its motto is Rien de Commun (Nothing Commonplace). The French here is beyond me, and Corti is not in The Fabulists French. I can say that there are twenty-one pastiches of La Fontaine offered here in a beautifully produced book. There is a T of C at the back. From what I could gather of Odette de Mourgues' preface, there is here some wonderful imitation of what La Fontaine did, and the imitation goes much deeper than the surface. Alas, the book will have to wait for a more skilled French reader than me!

Identifier

en_US 7838 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83091

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Chez José Corti

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ2605.O683 T7 1962 See all items with this value

en_US José Corti See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole