Fables: Jean de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables: Jean de La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US Boillat, Joanna See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Boillat, Joanna

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:25Z

en_US 2012-07

en_US 2009

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:25Z

Date Issued

en_US 2009

Abstract

en_US Here is a thoroughly contemporary presentation of La Fontaine in 216 large, lovely, and heavy pages. From four to eight fables per book are included. Watch out for the clever title-pages for each book. A character in silhouette looks over at the list of fables to be presented. The pictures, outspokenly modern, present animal heads with human bodies. GA is presented in two female insects sitting back to back in chairs, one enjoying coffee and the other working on a computer (7). I cannot even be sure which is cicada and which is ant! FC is presented as a case of conversants, perhaps even psychologist and client (8-9). The rats in TMCM sit at a modest table with food and glasses of wine (14-15). One of the most captivating images is for BC: three rows of six mice -- all apparently identical and identically dressed -- sit on chairs with their hands in their laps (25). Similar is the illustration for FK (49): are those look-alike frogs voting or waving hello? The weasel that got into a granary is a sleek model type with red shoes and bonbons (58-59). One of the great pictures of the whole book is the farmer ready to wield the sickle himself (77). Another great illustration is that of the monkey elected to rule the animals (101). Les Animals malades de la Peste (116-19) is wonderfully presented through a first black-and-white silhouette of board members and then a colored, personalized version of the same with the guilty ass inserted. The milkmaid is turned into a shopper who stumbles and drops her bags and purse (122-23). What she stumbles upon is an economic graph! One more of many good illustrations: Les Deux Coqs is presented as a cocktail party (124-25). Watch out for the menacing vulture who looms up on the far right! This artist understands La Fontaine wonderfully!

Identifier

en_US 9782700027518

en_US 8827 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84038

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Éditions Gründ

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 2009 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole