La Fontaine aux fables (Volume 1): Texte Intégral

Title

en_US La Fontaine aux fables (Volume 1): Texte Intégral

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de

Contributor

en_US Various

en_US Ayroles, Alain (preface)

Date

2016-01-25T19:53:56Z

en_US 2007-07

en_US 2002

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:53:56Z

Date Issued

en_US 2002

Abstract

en_US This is a high-class volume of comics representing twelve fables of La Fontaine. The artist for each fable can be found in the T of C at the back and also on the back cover; in fact there are twelve different artists, and their styles of presentation are quite different. The most unusual style is that of Yann Dégruel and Julie Audibert in Le Chat et le Renard (33-35). The T of C incorrectly puts Le Renard et le Bouc on 8. It is on 18. I will ask some friends who speak better French than I about the play on words which I think is found in the title, perhaps something like The Fountain for Fables? The fables here probe dimensions not perceived in the fable, as when the wolf first makes various attempts on the sheep, only to be thwarted by a dog, and then tries on various disguises before settling on that of a shepherd (3). The stories themselves last generally about three or four pages with about eleven or twelve individual pictures on a page. I find the artists here clever. Two of them bring in FC as clever additions to their illustrations of other fables. Thus both the fox and the crow get distracted when the mule with a casket of gold passes by on 24. FC shows up again on 44 as a short distraction in FS. This is very high quality comics work! One particularly good effect has to do with the destruction of the unwitting. Thus the weasel and rabbit destroyed by Raminogrobis the cat are represented in the last pane only by their characteristic clothing, which is all that is left of them (10). Earlier the corpse of the wolf who had masqueraded as a shepherd is hanged with a shepherd's crook through his heart (5). Do not miss the great pane of wolf's eyes on the top of 38.

Identifier

en_US 9782847899320 (v. 3)

en_US 6320 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81649

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Guy Delcourt Productions

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3

en_US La Fontaine

Type

en_US Book, Whole