Les Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Les Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Sylvie Martin

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean

Contributor

en_US Lacasse, Anouk

Date

2016-01-25T19:06:20Z

en_US 2013-07

en_US 2011

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:06:20Z

Date Issued

en_US 2011

Abstract

en_US Here is a large-format (9 x 13) book presenting twenty fables with eight pages for each. The poetry text page at the beginning of each fable is formatted to look like a familiar old book with worn hinges. There are then prose texts along with the illustrations for each story. The colored art is done in broad strokes, sometimes taking a whole page, like the crow on 14, and sometimes smaller portions, like the mouse held by the lion on 19. The art might even be called primitive in the non-pejorative sense. Perrette goes through a significant sequence of emotions that are well pictured in MM (26-31). The artist gives us a good sense of La Fontaine's perception of the beginning of the TH race: the hare rests with a cocktail in a lawn chair while the race starts and the tortoise moves off (45). The frog in OF is a diminutive slender female who wants to put on weight. The ox recommends the balloon method to fill out, and she falls in love with the method! The approach of this art is especially appropriate, I believe, for TMCM, which is well presented (80-87). One of the best illustrations presents the wolf and lamb either as mirrored in the water or as seen from below the water-line (125). The front cover, the pre-title-page, and the back cover all bring together various characters from the fables in three different designs. Among the many big, inexpensive fable books that appear in France year after year, this is a favorite. T of C at the beginning.

Identifier

en_US 9782896388530

en_US 9189 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79599

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Les Éditions Coup d'oeil

en_US Québec

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Fab 2011c

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Type

en_US Book, Whole