Fables de La Fontaine: Une Anthologie proposée par Benoit Marchon

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine: Une Anthologie proposée par Benoit Marchon

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Jean de La Fontaine; Benoit Marchon

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Jarrie, Martin

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:27Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 2014

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:27Z

Date Issued

en_US 2014

Abstract

en_US Here are forty-three fables presented by an artist I have enjoyed twice elsewhere. The book's unusual shape (6½ x 10¾) is the first clue that it is going to present traditional material in a fresh way. Almost every presentation involves two pages and clever positioning of a few key images. GA (10-11) presents an ant with a sack of grain on his back marching across the page above a grasshopper moving upwards with a guitar on his back: character, load, and direction are all different. FC presents a cheese with its owner's name struck through and changed from Corbeau to Renard (12-13). WS shows a stork with a scissors for a head beside an x-ray of a wolf's digestive tract with the bone lodged down the throat (22-23). The spilt milk of MM is blotting out drawings of hens, pig, and cow (30-31). The surreal style fits the approach perfectly. Sometimes I have no idea why an object is presented the way Jarrie presents it; other times it is perfect. The bull in OF holds the frog by a tether as though the latter were a helium-filled balloon (32-33). Maybe best of all is The Rat and the Elephant (50-51). The elephant is segmented to make room for the text. Between the elephant's legs, mostly hidden from us, a cat reaches out a paw for the minuscule rat under the elephant's big belly. For sheer fun, try The Lion Defeated by a Man (78-79). The book has a place-holding ribbon, a short life of both La Fontaine and of Jarrie, and a helpful glossary of unusual language in the fables. This book fulfills its rear cover's promise of a fresh entry into a fabulous zoological park. Bravo, Jarrie!

Identifier

en_US 10205 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76193

Publisher

en_US Bayard Éditions

en_US Montrouge, France

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3Fab 2014 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole