Jean de La Fontaine: Bajky

Title

en_US Jean de La Fontaine: Bajky

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Czech

en_US Original language: fre

en_US Boxed

en_US Translator Gustav Francl. Editor Eva Brantsova

Creator

en_US Born, Adolf See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Born, Adolf

Date

2016-01-25T19:03:14Z

en_US 2001-11

en_US 2001

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:03:14Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

Abstract

en_US I was doing business with Zachary when, in Morocco, I found the French edition of this book, published in 2000. I asked him about the Czech version, and he found it at this astounding price. This edition is boxed; the box has slight damage at the upper edge of the spine. The book cover features a clever cartoon of a beast writer out of whose mouth a snake emerges--with an open mouth and fangs showing. What a great image for the fabulist! It is curious that the French edition listed this Czech publication as appearing in 2000, but the Czech publication itself gives a date of 2001. Did something in the process get slowed up? I append below some of my comments on the French edition. The page numbers are identical in the two volumes. It abounds in lively and delightful illustration, including all sorts of little extras, like critters in the margins of the opening T of C. These days one seldom finds La Fontaine so extensively illustrated. Each book gets a full-page illustration at its beginning. Then there are smaller and larger illustrations scattered through the book, sometimes starting in the right page's margin and finishing only after one turns the page. A good example occurs from 91 to 92, as we see the eagle, cat, and pig mothers clearly on 91, and then their children more clearly on 92. The satyr dealing with the passer-by on 171 suddenly has his leg turn into that of the horse administering a kick to the wolf on 172. There are also many full-page and even double-page illustrations within the books. Among my favorites are the illustrations for La Lice et sa Compagne (55), La Chatte Metamorphosée en Femme (73), FK (88-89), Le Lion Amoreux (106), L'Avare qui a Perdu son Trésor (147), DLS (191-92), Le Cochet, le Chat et le Souriceau (204-5), DS (220-22), Les Deux Coqs (268-69), Le Lion, le Loup et le Renard (292-93), Les Femmes et le Secret (300-1), Le Rieur et les Poissons (305-6), L'Éducation (340), L'Écolier, le Pédant et le Maître d'un Jardin (363), Le Lion (436-37 and 439-40), Le Paysan du Danube (454-55 and 456), and Les Compagnons d'Ulysse (469-71). The spread on 116-17 brings together nicely the preceding fable, since the fly is on a beautiful woman's face, and the following fable of the Seigneur hunting violently in the garden. Le Héron and La Fille are combined creatively on 244-46. The Horoscope and L'Âne et le Chien come together on 323-5.

Identifier

en_US 8086113183 (váz.)

en_US 4250 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79526

Language

en_US cze

Publisher

en_US Nakladatelskvi Brio, s.r.o.

en_US Prague

Subject

en_US PQ1811.C3 F6 2001 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