La poule aux oeufs d'or

Title

en_US La poule aux oeufs d'or

en_US Lito Les Fables de La Fontaine

en_US Lito 16 10

Description

en_US Language note: France

Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Lienard, Maud

Date

2020-01-23T17:38:48Z

2019-06

en_US 2017

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:38:48Z

Date Issued

en_US 2017

Abstract

en_US This fable has a remarkably short text from La Fontaine. A promythium announces that avarice loses everything in trying to gain everything. That aphorism stands in a pleasant farm scene. The next page shows us the farmer with a golden egg and his hen, and the accompanying text announces him as the evidence for that promythium. The middle page has just one line: "He thought that the hen's body had a treasure inside." The next page shows the dead hen in the farmer's hand; the text announces that she was just like any other hen. Then comes a key line. In Michie's translation it runs this way: "Thus he destroyed through his own fault the great bonanza he’d enjoyed." The last page shows him looking at the dead hen on a stump as La Fontaine specifies that this is a moral for greedy or stingy people -- and notes that the turn from rich to poor overnight happens a lot lately through the desire to get rich too soon. Simple, broadstroke art, often set up almost as a two-dimensional cutout in front of a deeper background.

Identifier

en_US 11620 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125337

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Éditions Lito

en_US Champigny-sur-Marne, France

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L36Pou 2017 See all items with this value

Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

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