Les Fables de Jean de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Les Fables de Jean de La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dustjacket (book cover)

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 Honoré, Alexandre

Date

2025-05-20T17:10:00Z

2023-06

en_US 2018

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 2018

Abstract

en_US Here is an impressive, large-format book that is third in line among a family of four books, three of which we have. The first, which we do not have, is a Piccolia 2014 original presentation of Honoré's impressive work. The second is the Italian version of the same year. As I wrote about it, there is an AI at the end and on the back of the dust-jacket. There are about seventy fables here on 125 pages, many with a full-page illustration. This volume, 9¼" x 12", is smaller than that 11¼" x 15" volume. The art is big and challenging. The book's high points include TMCM (15) with its delightfully contrasted rats, who also appear on the back of the dust-jacket. The wine bottle behind them in the full-page illustration comes from "Chateau La Fontaine"! Sometimes the artist takes questionable liberties, as when the about-to-explode frog is on top of the top-hat on top of the ox's head (10)! OR gets one of the largest tree-faces I have witnessed (30). AD is helped by giving the artist a viewpoint that can see both above and below water-level (38). This fully-dressed ant really is drowning! FK's first king turns out to be a wooden head sticking up above the surface of the pond (44-45). The swan pleading for its life is already cooking in the cook's pot (58)! The ass carrying relics is indeed proud (84)! The stag seeing himself in the water is both proud and dapper (101)! The fourth in the series is done by Daphne S.A. in 2021. It has the same size as our present 2018 Piccolia version.

Identifier

en_US 13381 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/157749

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Éditions Piccolia

en_US Saint-Michel-sur-Orge

Subject

Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value