Esope & Jean de la Fontaine: 1695-1995 Tricentenaire, Tome 1
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Aesop
La Fontaine, Jean de
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1995
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This book represents a delightful find! I have been a fan of Willy Aractingi for some time. It started with the gift of an Air France menu from a former student. Since then I have found two of his four volumes of La Fontaine from the same "Z'editions" in 1997 covering the first six books of La Fontaine. Here is rather a book of Aesop and La Fontaine. As I continue to find his books scattered around the web, I hope to understand the relationship among them. In the preface here, he mentions coming to the end in 1995 of painting the 246 fables and some portraits; he had been at work on them over seven years. The particular approach of this large paperback book of 107 pages is to present La Fontaine's verse and Aesop's prose side by side for some 50 fables. The rendering of Aractingi's colored work is superb! An example of his wit is "The Weasel in a Granary" (29). Two weasels look at one another through a hole in the wall; the one on the right has a bigger torso. The fables are arranged alphabetically up to "Le Lièvre et la Tortue." Now I need to find the second volume of this pair! This book has the same pair of introduction writers as the 1997 series. 7¾" x 9¾".
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