Jean de La Fontaine: Les insectes de la fable

Title

en_US Jean de La Fontaine: Les insectes de la fable

en_US Le bestiaire du capucin

en_US BdC 2

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Limited to 2000 copies

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Gonçalves, Vanessa

en_US Le Pestipon, Yves (Prologue)

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:37Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 2006

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:37Z

Date Issued

en_US 2006

Abstract

en_US I found three books from this series, Le bestiaire du capucin, in my thirty minutes at Gibert Joseph this trip. This booklet, along with Les fables du Renard, is later than Les fables du Rat. Several of the illustrations here feature two and three colors. The artist has a difficult but challenging task here. Part of that task is to help readers beyond an initial Yecch! response to contemplate the particulars of this specific fable's situation. The artist's temptation may be that she gets taken up in entomology. I find her approach to The Lion and the Mosquito good. Her illustration for AD is simple but effective. The Coach and the Fly is adequate; such a good fable could have elicited so much more! The Spider and the Swallow gave me a chance to appreciate this good fable for perhaps the first time. I would not have thought that La Fontaine had eleven fables including these creatures! Yves Le Pestipon begins his excellent Prologue by pointing out that, in La Fontaine's time, insect meant more or less an animal able to live in slices or sections. That sense has the word including, for example, snakes. He suggests that, for La Fontaine, insect calls up little animal by contrast with the big animals. One basic lesson that they teach is: One can be small and still be full of oneself. The fly who thought he brought a coach up the mountain is a fine example. The book is unpaginated.

Identifier

en_US 10236 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76224

Publisher

en_US Éditions Le Capucin

en_US Lectoure, France

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A2I5 2006 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