Good lord I love Babar. (And Celeste, and Pom, Flora, Alexander, Isabelle, Zephir, Cornelius and Pompadour)
Despite the variety of interpretations… Is it French Nostalgia for a Pre-WWI world? An ode to Colonialism? Self-referential criticism of French Neo-colonialism?
Definitely, it is one narrative that cannot be called “Just a children’s story.” There is something much deeper about this autocratic ruler of a bourgeois elephant city.
(via clashing)