La Fontaine: Der Rabe und der Fuchs

Title

en_US La Fontaine: Der Rabe und der Fuchs

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US First edition

en_US Thomas Keck

Creator

en_US Keck, Thomas (translator) See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Köhler, Rolf

en_US Stackelberg, Jürgen (essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T16:14:05Z

en_US 1995-07

en_US 1990

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:14:05Z

Date Issued

en_US 1990

Abstract

en_US My first find on this trip to Heidelberg, and a wonderful one it is! I actually got this book cheaper than I got the paperback copy (1992). The translation is, as the dust jacket proclaims, ein wenig frech wirkend. It is well rhymed. It transposes the setting of FG to Bavaria or Hessen, for example. The color work of the illustrations is outstanding! And there is humor everywhere in the illustrations, starting with the grasshopper-baby's pacifier in GA (6). Other clever moments include the lion boss at his desk (16: he is in a GmbH with the other three animals); torn-up photos of the two women (2W, 27); the boy hanging onto branches in a rushing river (30); the uprooted, personified oak with a rootlike penis (35); the clever king frog, who half becomes a log (45); the supposedly dead-drunk man (46); and the fox who has urinated on a human bust (59). I have never seen mice-commanders so wonderfully decked out (61)! Less Is More! makes a great graffito-slogan for FWT (69). It would be easy to go on citing one great illustration after another. One of the best contemporary sets of illustrations I know.

Identifier

en_US Pp. : DM 29.80

en_US 2128 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77688

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Insel Verlag

en_US Frankfurt am Main

Subject

en_US PQ1811.G3 K435 1990 See all items with this value

en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole