Les Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Les Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual: Arabic/French

Translated by Georges Abi Saleh and Georges Chebli

Creator

en_US Saleh, Georges Abi See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Aractingi, Willy

Date

2025-05-20T17:10:26Z

2024-07

en_US 1995

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:26Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US Here is a large (8½" x 9⅜") paperbound book with bilingual French and Arabic texts and an image for each of 73 fables. It has been an exciting encounter! Some of the best illustrations include "Red Kite and Nightingale" (99); 2W (139); "Lion and Mosquito (219); and DLS (267). There are surprising things in this book. First, the dull finish of the pages do not serve the art here as well as brighter pages do elsewhere, as for example in the Aractingi volumes from Z'editions. The illustrations seem to be the same as those in the Z'editions, and so the different visual version of GA on 111 is surprising. In addition, the coloring of Aractingi's work here is sometimes vastly different from the coloring in other editions. Examples are OR (27) and "Two Cocks" (147). 305 pages followed by a T of C and an AI. The printer seems to have exchanged two illustrations: CW (39) and TB (47).

Identifier

en_US 13623 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/157981

Language

en_US ara

Publisher

en_US FMA

Subject

Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value