Tête à Queue d'après une fable de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Tête à Queue d'après une fable de La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Bénédicte Guettier

Creator

en_US Guettier, Bénédicte See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Guettier, Bénédicte

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:10Z

en_US 2008-05

en_US 1993

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:10Z

Date Issued

en_US 1993

Abstract

en_US There is some good reflective fun going on here, starting from the naming -- as Zeno -- of La Fontaine's nameless snake in the seventh fable of Book 7. Zeno tells himself Let's go for a digestive walk after a first picture that shows him swallowing a rabbit. The tail says Stop and wants to take the lead. This book's art is up to the task of having serious fun with the possibilities of a snake's head and tail talking to each other. The cover picture has the snake tied up in a knot. The tail's blind leading has the same repeated bad results as in La Fontaine. When the tail bumps into a fox, it responds I'll break your head. The head responds. No, just kill my tail. Whereas La Fontaine's beast, led by the tail, finally plunges into the Styx, this tail plunges the snake into a river and there gets sense. The key line in this version is 'Je crois que j'ai fait une bêtise', avoue enfin la queue toute piteuse, tandis que les poissons se moquent d'elle.The story's last phrase,repeated on the back cover, is Une histoire qu n'est pas sans queue ni tête. This is a story that is not without head or tail, beginning or end. Good stuff! I had seen this book advertised and looked hard for it in France while I was there. Back home, I finally gave up the search and ordered it from Amazon in France.

Identifier

en_US 23211035531

en_US 6362 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81689

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Ecole des losirs

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.G87 Te 1993 See all items with this value

en_US La Fontaine; one fable See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole