Anthologie des Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Anthologie des Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Choisies et lues par Michel Leeb

Creator

en_US de Kemmeter, Philippe

Contributor

en_US de Kemmeter, Philippe

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:29Z

en_US 2012-07

en_US 2001

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

Abstract

en_US This is a curious book, with a fine CD. The unusualness starts with the book's thin, tall format: 5¾ x 9½. The unusualness continues with the twelve full-page colored illustrations. Their style is lively, primitive, spirited, creative. The French keep using their imaginations on La Fontaine, and the results are delightful for the rest of us! There is a strange thing here: many of the illustrations are separated from their texts. Since there is no table of the illustrations, I will list them here with their pages and, if they are separate, the pages of their texts. They are The Weasel in the Granary (17, 15); The Stag Admiring Himself (21, 18); UP (33, 35); The Bulls and the Frogs (41); TH (49, 51); The Old Lion (53); The Lion and the Mosquito (57); WC (69, 66); The Wounded Eagle (77); The Angler and the Small Fish (81, 78); and The Fox and the Goat (85). Let me suggest something engaging about each of three of the best among these. The weasel in the granary has eaten books, not grain! In the illustration for The Bulls and the Frogs, one can see the frogs underwater as well as the bovine love triangle that caused their problems. In The Wounded Eagle, colors help make clear that it is eagle feathers that have mortally wounded this eagle. FC shows up three times: on the cover, on the verso of the title-page, and on 37. The disc has little or no music but very good voices. I will keep the disc in its holder inside the end-paper at the back of the book.

Identifier

en_US 9782911468650

en_US 8838 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84049

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Éditions du Layeur

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808 .A2 2001b

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole