Item
Ivan Andrejevic Krylov: Clovek a stin
- Title
- Ivan Andrejevic Krylov: Clovek a stin
- en_US Clenska Kniznice Premie
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Language note: Czech
- Hana Vrbova
- Creator
- Vrbova, Hana See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Taborska, Zdena
- Date
- 2016-05-09T19:54:26Z
- 2016-01
- en_US 1976
- Date Available
- 2016-05-09T19:54:26Z
- Date Issued
- 1976
- Abstract
- en_US Here is an unusual book. The surprises start with an illustration on the dust jacket that, seen one way, presents a human being. Turned upside down, it is a bear. The second surprise is the format of the book: tall and thin, 4¾" x 10". Fables take up 1-140. They seem to be arranged in Krylov's standard order. The first of the book's strong woodcuts are for "OR" (4) and "The Village Band" (5). "Parnassus" has a strong illustration that takes up all of 7. WL may be the book's most dramatic image (13). Also strong is CJ (30). Every page joins black ink to red. Two pages (32-33) offer ten different illustrations to take us through "Old Mat and His Man." Is it the same wolf that appears again on 63? Is that not "Death and the Woodman" on 75? The style of the illustrations is primitive and strong. I find this book a surprise and a delight! God bless the Czechs!
- Identifier
- en_US 10794 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US cze
- Publisher
- en_US Svoboda
- Prague
- Subject
- en_US Ivan Kryl;ov See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection