Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual: French/English

en_US First printing

en_US Translated by Norman R. Shapiro

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Schorr, David

Date

2016-01-25T16:30:08Z

en_US 1998-09

en_US 1998

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:30:08Z

Date Issued

en_US 1998

Abstract

en_US I like this book. The translations are lively, informed, occasionally arch. There are good notes at the back. Illustrations appear for perhaps half of the fifty fables, and they are frequently pairs of illustrations strategically located to highlight the fable and translation facing each other. Among the best of the illustrations are those for FK (30, 32), The Deer and the Vine (44-45), The Mule Boasting of His Family Tree (60-61), The Sick Lion and the Fox (74, 75, 77), and The Matron of Ephesus (146, 147, 154, 155). Schorr knows how to play with the fables. Do not miss his illustrations on the pages of notes on the translator and illustrator (168-9); he shows each at work. Did the two widows use scissors on the unsuspecting man (8-9)? Or did they perhaps pluck hairs imperceptibly while visibly scissoring? This fine book is a tribute to the fable tradition.

Identifier

en_US 0252066502 (paper : alk. paper)

en_US 3184 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78584

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US University of Illinois Press

en_US Urbana

Subject

en_US PQ1811.E3 S46 1998 See all items with this value

en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole