Wolves, Frogs & Other Beasts: Selected Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
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Carsten, Christopher
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2019
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This is a boxed portfolio of 15 free-floating unbound numbered folded pages from an experienced translator of La Fontaine, who worked with a team to produce an outstanding presentation. The best of the translations may be "The Satyr and the Passerby." As an experiment, I read the translations without referring to the original beforehand. I would say that the experiment succeeded. Carsten's translations work! The woodcut illustrations are challenging. As I considered them, I found them taking narrative form only slowly and sometimes never. After some time, I would sometimes make out a known form. Perhaps the most challenging that way is the illustration at the very center of the work, on Folio VI, between "The Fox and the Bust" and "The Ears of the Hare." I reviewed a book of La Fontaine fable translations of Christopher earlier, and so we know and respect each other's work. It was a pleasure to learn of this work and acquire it. There is an online video describing the teamwork that produced it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIDyikUZEP8.
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Christopher Carsten