Item
Le corbeau et le renard
- Title
- en_US Le corbeau et le renard
- Description
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US #272 of 300
- Paul Colinet and Robert Willems
- Creator
- en_US Colinet, Paul See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Willems?, Robert
- Date
- 2022-11-07T16:12:36Z
- 2022-06
- en_US 1989
- Date Available
- 2022-11-07T16:12:36Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1989
- Abstract
- en_US What we have here seems to be the fruit of an encounter in 1952 of several people being creative with their memory of the story of the fox and the crow. What emerges is a pamphlet of 16 pages containing three unusual colored illustrations that had been glued into the booklet but have come free. Besides that there are a number of black-and-white drawings that creatively pull apart and put together the story of the fox and the crow. One is a drawing of the characters in the fable as disparate actors. Another drawing translates the story into a building where the fox is a gentleman below, while the tree and crow have become a flag above. In another, at a table there is a drinker, a glass and a bottle, and each is associated with one of the characters in the table. There is a delightful drawing of a human being offering a piece of cheese to a crow on top of a small potted tree while a fox waits below, half sheltered in a doghouse. There is even a scene in which the cheese is a boat and the crow is drowning, while the fox is the sunshine above. A final drawing has spots reserved for the crow and the fox. What a delightful engagement of imagination and conversation partners! The booklet represents a first serious find on this trip in Paris. Somehow Google recommended "Chretien" as a used bookshop. It turned out, of course, to be a Christian bookshop for new books, but across the street was this Belgian bookshop, where two helpful salespersons dug up this rare piece of ephemera. Fables live!
- Identifier
- en_US 13024 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Les Marées de la Nuit
- en_US Morlanwelz, Belgium
- Subject
- Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection