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Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames - The D'Antin Manuscripts (Paperback)

by Luis D'Antin Van Rooten (Editor)

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Paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Reissue edition (Dec 1980)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0140057307
ISBN-13: 978-0140057300
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 0.6 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Nonsense poems in French, when pronounced, sound like English nursery rhymes, such as Humpty Dumpty and Jack Sprat.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Phonetics for Fanatics - "Sounds Like......", 5 Aug 2003

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This review is from: Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames - The D'Antin Manuscripts (Hardcover)

With the spurious title "The D'Antin Manuscript", suspicions are immediately alerted. D'Antin = "downtown", maybe? More than likely.

The book purports to be a rediscovery of a mediaeval French manuscript and is presented with appropriate introduction, notes, etc., the usual machinery of scholars. However, upon reading the poems, the arcane nature of the French renders the lines meaningless. What kind of manuscript is this, anyway? You go with the flow - you chuck "meaning" out the window.

Read them phonetically, and suddenly the poems take shape in a Proustian way, as the nursery rhymes of your youth. Not only is the book great fun to return to a) for a laugh and b) to practise your French accent (you'll need the fluency for, e.g. "Un petit d'un petit" - Humpty Dumpty). It's also great to fake your friends out with this handy little tome

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ingenious, hilarious, subtle, 12 Nov 1998

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This review is from: Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames - The D'Antin Manuscripts (Hardcover)

This is an excellent book in which the author demonstrates an excellent wordplay on two languages. On the surface, it appear to be oddments of French poetry, but read the poems aloud and uncover the genius in two languages. Even with a very minimal knowledge of French, the work is easily understood. There is also a German version "Morder Guss Reims: the Gustav Leberwurst manuscript" by John Hulme : this one is even better : 6 out of five!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious french poems sounding like English nursery rhymes, 25 Feb 1999

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H.R. Van Rooten's underground classic belies a sophisticated and ingenious sense of humour. His french poems when pronounced aloud (au Peter Sellers) sound exactly like nursery rhymes. I tried these out by having several french speakers read them. The effect was hilarious. Van Rooten's footnote comments on the actual French text are equally brilliant: e.g. 'Un petit d'un petit..." (ie Humpty Dumpty...) Footnote: The inevitable result of a child marriage.

Buy this book and entertain your friends for hours. Works especially well with several bottles of vintage Claret!

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