Once Again, La Fontaine: Sixty More Fables

Title

en_US Once Again, La Fontaine: Sixty More Fables

en_US Wesleyan Poetry

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/French

en_US Original language: fre

en_US Apparent 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

en_US Hollander, John (essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:42Z

en_US 2002-06

en_US 2000

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 2000

Abstract

en_US Shapiro and Schorr are at it again! This marks their third book together on La Fontaine. It is, I believe, another triumph. The translations are crisp. I enjoyed, for example, The Charlatan (115). I am surprised at how copiously David Schorr illustrates this volume. I noticed only perhaps four fables that are not illustrated. Schorr discusses well in his foreword the possibilities for the use of visual space in a bilingual translation. While he exploits again here the polarity of a fable's antagonists, he also plays with other design possibilities, involving among other things the outer margins and the gutter. I enjoy particularly SS (18-19), The Drunkard and His Wife (30-31), the before and after views of the weasel (40-41), the child sleeping on the rim of the well (90), and SW (104-5). The latter repeats a motif from Schorr's earlier work, perhaps in The Fabulists French. I believe that there are only about forty La Fontaine fables left for these two to work on. This book includes an audio CD featuring twenty-six of the fables in English. They are rendered in very lively fashion.

Identifier

en_US 0819564583 (pa)

en_US 4505 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80170

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Wesleyan University Press: University Press of New England

en_US Hanover, NH

Subject

en_US PQ1811.E3 S45 2000 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole