La Fontaine: Fables
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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2007
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This book shows surprising creativity! I am surprised first of all that I have not known of it. It is a large (9" x 11½"), heavy book of 129 pages. The colored art accompanying the La Fontaine texts is breathtakingly imaginative! I will mention some samples, but this is the kind of book that could have me listing almost every fable. In OF (12-13), the ox is grazing on the frog's back! TMCM (16-17) has a great way of contrasting the two similar mice on opposed pages. In WL (18), the wolf appears as, in the midst of the river, a mirror of the lamb. Either the artist or the publisher was in love with Cost's LM, since it appears on the cover, the title-page, and 33. CW gets a whole two-page spread for its evocative picture (42-43). "The Lion in Love" (62-63) involves an embrace with a closed-eye woman by a toothless, clawless lion. My prize goes to "Two Cocks" (102-3) where the two cocks' hanging face appendages have turned into hostile human faces. Wow! As the opening T of C shows, the fables are presented according to La Fontaine's books, up to 11 per book. Book 11 alone is not represented.
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Tournesol Conseils/La Renaissance du Livre
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