Fables: Jean de La Fontaine (Korean)

Title

en_US Fables: Jean de La Fontaine (Korean)

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Korean

en_US Original language: fre

en_US LaFontaine

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Denis, Jean C.

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:14Z

en_US 2004-07

en_US 2003

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:14Z

Date Issued

en_US 2003

Abstract

en_US I was delighted to find this old friend translated into Korean in the few minutes I had to shop for books in Seoul on this trip. It seems to be a translation and otherwise a reproduction of the beautiful French 1994 version published by Albin Michel, whose copyright is recognized here. It thus contains thirty fables illustrated by thirty artists. Let me repeat some comments from that listing. It would be hard to exaggerate the merits of this beautiful book. The fun starts with the cover picture of bookshelves with figurines of two pots, a tortoise and a hare, and a fox and a crow around a pensive La Fontaine wearing a scarf made of a page of his own printed fable text. Each of the thirty artists has contributed four elements: a full-page colored illustration in one of many different styles (the right-hand page in each fable's set of two pages), a matching colored initial letter, a black-and-white design that appears below the text on the left-hand page, and a self-portrait. The latter are collected at the end of the volume. The numbering of pages seems to have changed slightly. My favorites among the illustrations include The Fox and the Goat (4-5), The Lion in Love (12-13), 2P (14-5), The Rat Who Retired from the World (36-7), The Fisherman and the Little Fish (48-9), The Cat, the Weasel, and the Young Rabbit (54-5), and WL by Tony Ross (56-57). T of C at the front. A real treasure!

Identifier

en_US 8988674901

en_US 4946 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80544

Language

en_US kor

Publisher

en_US Crayon House, Ltd.

en_US S*oul

Subject

en_US PQ1808 .A2 2003 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole