Salut, Monsieur de La Fontaine: Fables nouvelles

Title

en_US Salut, Monsieur de La Fontaine: Fables nouvelles

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Pierre Gamarra

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Devienne, Frédéric

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:55Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 2005

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:55Z

Date Issued

en_US 2005

Abstract

en_US Here are fables a la Fontaine and built from La Fontaine. The standard is two facing pages per fable, each fable with at least one colored illustration. I have tried the first few. Most accessible to me is Le Sanglier, l'Homme et la Montre (10): a boar finds a gold watch and rejects it because he cannot eat it. A poor man finds the same gold watch and sees it as his meal ticket for a long time to come. Each regards in his own way what each finds on the earth. A rooster proclaims the visible virtues of a bottle of wine that he is looking at. I love this gold dust that renders its material so beautiful! His discourse is in vain, as he learns by becoming a coq au vin (17). Further fables have titles like Picasseau et Picasso (42) and Le Cigare et la Fourmi (60). Good fun! The colored illustrations have their own rather eccentric style, not to my liking.

Identifier

en_US 10298 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76286

Publisher

en_US Éditions Art - Le Temps des Cerises

en_US La Corneuve, France

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A6G36 2005 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine; Pierre Gamarra See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole