Fables de la Fontaine
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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1950? , 1950
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Here is a quintessentially ephemeral pamphlet! It is crumbling in my hand. Its cover pictures a donkey weeping. Does it ever become clear why he is weeping? This large-format book admits no illustrator, date, place, or publisher. Its spine is giving way, and the covers are torn. Many of the pages inside have monochrome illustrations. Some reader has added his or her own colorings at various points and with various levels of skill. One of the major glories of this collection is to snatch objects like this from destruction! On the title-page, the unsuspecting hare and weasel approach the happy cat. Every page has the same pair of border-columns displaying nine animals each. Sometimes these columns are colored in monochrome, sometimes not. The order of fables seems to be hopelessly confused here. Les Voleurs et l'Ane seems to be interrupted by MSA and then to continue. MSA is announced and begun only some pages later. FK suffers the same fate of being split up into pieces. It may, however, provide the most dramatic illustration, namely of the stork devouring a frog. Another strong illustration features the crow rejected by crows after he has tried to be a peacock. The final image, of the cat capturing the two litigants pictured on the title-page, is very dramatic.
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