Fables d'Ésope

Title

en_US Fables d'Ésope

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Traduit du grec ancien par Émile Chambry

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Rea, Simone

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:18Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 2012

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:18Z

Date Issued

en_US 2012

Abstract

en_US From the original Favole published in 2011 by Topipittori in Milan. Here is a large-format (9 x 13¼) landscape -- rather than portrait -- book. I feel as though I have known it before, but I cannot find it in the database. The cover has a cat looking suspiciously around a table of fable characters, among whom is a stork dipping her beak deep into a tall glass. The back cover advertises correctly: Vingt fables amusantes, parfois cruelles, des plus connues aux plus surprenantes…. The illustrations are indeed provocative, starting with the first fable's dog sick from devouring a snail. Are we seeing his insides or the woods in which he found the snail? In FC, three foxes rejoice in carnival costume over the fresh piece of meat teased away from the crow, who holds his hands high in outrage. In DS, we can see the fish start to pick at the floating piece of meat. My favorite in the book is Prométhée et les hommes. Since animals outnumbered people, Zeus asked Prometheus to transform a number of the former into the latter. They have human form but bestial souls. Rea mixes human and animal faces nicely here. TMCM has the country rat, perched in a flower, turning his head toward a slightly open door. The cover pictures turns out to be a doubting illustration of the fable in which a just lion king has all the animals come together in peace. Rea suggests nicely that this plan may not work. I wonder why many fable books are published because they have little new to offer; I do not have that question about this excellent book!

Identifier

en_US 10176 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76164

Publisher

en_US Actes Sud Junior

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole