Les Miettes d'Ésope: Fables

Title

en_US Les Miettes d'Ésope: Fables

Description

en_US Language note: French

Auguste Roussel

Creator

en_US Roussel, Auguste See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Gavarni

Date

2022-11-07T16:11:42Z

2021-03

en_US 1866

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:11:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 1866

Abstract

en_US Miettes are crumbs. Roussel here presents 79 newly created verse fables in the Aesopic tradition, grouped in six books on 278 pages, as the closing T of C shows. There are eight full-page illustrations on separate pages plus a frontispiece. As Bodemann indicates, these are stereotypical portraits of contemporary human beings. A typical example is “The Peasant and the Mannequins” (197). Tried several sample fables. The first fable uses the ever-expanding worlds of a young gnat as an image of the human being. “However expansive your world, it is but a speck in the universe.“ Fable V in Book 1 has a blind horse turning a grinding wheel all day long. He thinks that he traverses wide spaces and enjoys his travels. A fellow horse with slightly more vision enlightens him that he is going nowhere. Men are the same: turning constantly, they do not advance. Fable XL at the beginning of Book 4 uses the central image of a man crossing a field of chirping crickets. Frustrated by the overwhelming noise, he apparently attacks them, but they only sing louder and he wastes time and effort. A week later, he crosses the same field. There is no noise because they have all died. “If I had only known that they would die, I would have saved myself time.” Roussel here addresses “divine poets.” “Do not bother yourself with their cricket-like chirped critiques of you. Wait a few days and these creatures of a day will have passed away.”

Identifier

en_US 336

en_US 12570 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/138788

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Furne, Jouvet et Cie.

en_US Paris

Subject

Auguste Roussel See all items with this value