Quand les Betes Parlaient aux Hommes: Contes Africains Suivi des Fables de La Fontaine Traduites en Créole Ivoirien
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Anoma Kanié, L.
de La Fontaine, Jean
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1974
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Here are eighteen illustrated African folktales in French, followed by seven fables of La Fontaine in the Ivory Coast's French creole, without illustrations. I enjoyed the dialect on GA but found the translator missing what I think are La Fontaine's careful touches pointing the fable towards his own artistry as the cicada. Similarly, I miss La Fontaine's brusque moral announced at the very beginning of TH. Easiest of the folktales for me is Les Gendarmes (26), which seems very close to a fable. Each of the folktales is illustrated by a black-and-white full-page illustration. The artist is not acknowledged. Might it be Kanié himself? The book -- with a different cover -- is available these days on Amazon. At least five Big Ten libraries have this book.
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Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines
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10401 (Access ID)