Selected Fables by La Fontaine

Title

en_US Selected Fables by La Fontaine

Description

en_US Original language: fre

en_US Signed by Maureen Charlton

en_US Translated by Maureen Charlton

Creator

en_US Charlton, Maureen

Contributor

en_US Knuttel, Graham

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:31Z

en_US 2011-04

en_US 1995

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:31Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US I am surprised that I had not heard earlier of this publication. I note that Maureen Charlton died in Dublin in 2007. A second surprise is the price of this book. One reason for its expense is Charlton's signature. Are there other reasons? I have seldom seen society divided as clearly as Charlton divides it in her introduction. Louis XIV is the lion. The most prominent courtiers are the fox and the wolf. The bourgeoisie is represented by cats and dogs, ants and weasels, a hard-working, thrifty and unimaginative lot. The peasants -- the goats, the lambs and donkeys of the fables -- are nature's eternal victims attacked, mocked and often sacrificed (iii). The twenty fables offered here are grouped in five sections of four fables each: Mockery and Trickery; The Trickster Tricked; Freedom; Human Nature; and Power. There are eight full-page colored illustrations by Knuttel: FC; The Wolf and the Goat'; FS; BF; TMCM; The Swallow and the Little Birds; CW; and OR. FS (8) does a good job of showing the stork's contortions to get at the fox's offering, while the tricky fox looks the viewer right in the eye. The jay of BF (11) ends up looking quite weird. CW (24) has the man enveloping the cat in his arms, who looks like she uses mascara. A quick reading of several of the fables suggests that Charlton abbreviated them, sometimes leaving out elements that some of us might find important. This copy has been in a musty place for some time.

Identifier

en_US 9780951648438

en_US 7251 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82525

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Duke Press: A Martello Publication

en_US Dublin, Ireland

Subject

en_US PQ1811.E3 C39 1995

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole