Item
Les Bambous: Fables de La Fontaine travesties en patois martiniquais
- Title
- en_US Les Bambous: Fables de La Fontaine travesties en patois martiniquais
- Description
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: French/Creole
- Louis Jamah-Desrivaux
- Creator
- en_US Jamah-Desrivaux, Louis See all items with this value
- Date
- 2022-11-07T16:12:42Z
- 2022-01
- en_US 1931
- Date Available
- 2022-11-07T16:12:42Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1931
- Abstract
- en_US Here is a 90-year old paperbound book, unillustrated except for its frontispiece of J. de Magallon. As its closing T of C shows, it has 50 fables on some 246 pages. It offers "Bambou" text on each left-hand page, with a classical French translation on each right. Apparently, "Les Bambous" was first published in 1846. According to the cover and identical title-page, this 1931 edition is revised and augmented by a literary notice and by the French translation of Louis Jamah-Desrivaux. Might the original have been written by Francois Marbot, not mentioned here but credited with the work in "Zayann" in 2000? One can pick out perhaps a French word or two in each verse of the Bambou. This book makes a pleasant addition to the collection. It pleases me particularly to save another fragile paperbound book from, as Hopkins would say, "world's wildfire"! Among the questions raised by this book is: "Why the mention on the cover and title-page of "Un Vieux Commandeur"? Is that the original author or reporter? The translator?
- Identifier
- en_US 13065 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre|cpf
- Publisher
- en_US J. Peyronnet & Cie.
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection