Fablerie

Title

en_US Fablerie

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US 2e édition, revue et augmentée

Jean du Frout

Creator

en_US Du Frout, Jean

Contributor

en_US Desclozeaux

Date

2020-01-23T17:39:01Z

2019-08

en_US 2012

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:39:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 2012

Abstract

en_US Here is one of the crazier books in this collection. These rhymed verse fables with morals tend, I believe, toward positive advice on how to cope with the crazy situation of life. An example might be "Commere la cigogne" (26-27). As far as I can tell, the fable itself is broadly an argument on behalf of allowing single-sex marriages. How much better to have two loving parents than to have two who are enemies! The moral: "Let us quit judging good or evil. Let's tend to see the good with some respect." The art, always creative here, has a stork bringing a baby and then standing on top of a "No entry" sign. The illustration for the two cocks on 28 and 29 makes the jowls of the second one into boxing gloves. I studied more thoroughly "The Little Frog and the Heron" (42-43). The engaging illustration shows the frog about to be eaten holding open the heron's beak and using a fork to prop it open. The distressed frog makes a plea for moderation as the answer to climate change. The heron is about to eat him when he opens his beak a little wider, and the frog drops out into the water and is saved. Some illustrations like that on 47 might verge slightly on the obscene. Similarly on 55 we have a bird who is farting out music. A last great example of the art here is on 58-59. The whole text is a set of about twenty "Je sais" statements from a young mouse facing a mouse trap. These are all the things the mouse knows but he is not going to follow any of the commands he has received. He is going to have experience of this great cheese. How can our young forge their character except by making mistakes? It is forbidden to forbid. This is a book for which I wish my colloquial French were better. In the meantime the illustrations are wonderfully engaging. There is a T of C on 87. Frout did several fable books earlier, listed on the front endpaper.

Identifier

en_US 11716 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125429

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Les Éditions Fischbacher

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ2704.D84F34 2012

Jean du Frout

en_US Title Page Scanned