Quelques fables assez fabuleuses

Title

en_US Quelques fables assez fabuleuses

Description

en_US Language note: French

Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Voutch

Date

2022-10-13T19:19:20Z

2020-09

en_US 2019

Date Available

2022-10-13T19:19:20Z

Date Issued

en_US 2019

Abstract

en_US Voutch's foreword has him proclaiming that he is a designer of humor, not an illustrator and that that description would have led him to turn down an invitation to illustrate La Fontaine. But wait! Refuse to illustrate La Fontaine? That cannot happen! From his "yes" to the invitation to the decision to put the fables "back" into the woods the process of creation was apparently quite straightforward. Voutch acknowledges that La Fontaine takes some liberties ÔÇô that cicadas may not last into winter, that frogs do not eat rats (where in La Fontaine might they?) ÔÇô but that presents little problem. Nobody is perfect. The back cover also has Voutch declaring that he will not add humor to humor; La Fontaine has already been "l'humoriste en chef." Agreed, and Voutch follows that plan well. These illustrations are delightful. Most add to a full-page illustration a cameo within the text. Some have a second full page illustration. Among the best are "The Bear and the Gardener" (17); TMCM (21); "Milan and Nightingale" (34); the first cameo for TB (43); "The Stag at the Pool" (53); and "The Pig, the Goat, and the Lamb" (62). There is a T of C at the end showing the 30 fables here, each illustrated.

Identifier

en_US 12453 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/137788

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US le cherche midi

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US Ovr. PZ24.2.L3Qu 2019 See all items with this value

Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value