Petites Fables

Title

en_US Petites Fables

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Joseph-Victor Zaug

Creator

en_US Zaug, Joseph-Victor See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Daniel Sinclare

Date

2016-08-26T13:38:56Z

en_US 2015-11

en_US 1965

Date Available

2016-08-26T13:38:56Z

Date Issued

en_US 1965

Abstract

en_US "Here is an unusual and curious effort. Zaug has created some 140 30-line poems and arranged them alphabetically, as the closing T of C shows. The collection is preceded by a dedication, an invocation of La Fontaine, and an avant-propos. This last element sets out the author's goal and methods in remarkable fashion. Notice that some poems have commentary added at the very back of the book. Those that have literary forebears make note of the fact within the fable itself. I tried several. Perhaps the clearest to me is "Les Embarras de la Tortue." What does the tortoise do after her victory over the hare? Eventually, she has to prove it in another race. "Réputation usurpée est malaisée à soutenir" (87). "La Fourmi dans le Malheur" (110) seems to add a phase to La Fontaine's GA. The ant has seen her home spoiled by a flood. Grasshopper asks what good all her toil has done. Ant responds that it has taught her to be less severe with the grasshopper. When he comes begging, she will open her granary to him. "Le Lion et le Renard" (154) asks well how one can punish another for the very things one does. Zaug's eye seems to extend anywhere, to turn experience into a 30-line verse fable. Sinclare's line drawings occur about every four fables and are quite delicate."

Identifier

en_US 10831 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/91429

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Éditions Médicis

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ2686. A84P4 1965 See all items with this value

en_US Joseph-Victor Zaug See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole