LâFonten den Hikâyeler

Abstract

Alp Gencata writes to me that this is the first La Fontaine book in Turkish, printed six years after the Turkish alphabet found general use. There are forty-five fables on 95 pages. This book opens with a T of C, photocopied portrait of La Fontaine, and a two-page introduction. The black-print fables are nicely illustrated with red designs, often one before and one after each fable. I have the sense of having seen them somewhere before; what we find here is less stolen and more imitated, I believe. There are also several simple copyings from an offshoot of Oudry and other famous illustrators (35, 67, 87). The cover in red, green, and brown has La Fontaine seated before a lake with animals surrounding him. The series Okuyacaginiz Kitaplar is listed on the back cover, where this La Fontaine volume is fifth in order.