Fables

Title

en_US Fables

en_US Lire et Voir les Classiques

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Marie-Madeleine Fragonard

Creator

en_US Fragonard, Marie-Madeleine See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T15:52:49Z

en_US 1992-10

en_US 1989

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:52:49Z

Date Issued

en_US 1989

Abstract

en_US An excellent pocket edition of the complete fables, not including the posthumous fables or the stories usually attached to the fable collection. The main source is given under the title of each fable. There is a good inserted section of illustrations: political cartoons, personification engravings, photographic genre scenes, tapestry, lithography, Chauveau, Doré, Tokyo, Persian, Rabier, Disney. The preface stresses that La Fontaine's fables are written for adults; La Fontaine insists on the natural innocence of animals and the fundamental culpability of humans. Nos frères les animaux servent à deux fins: miroirs de nos défauts, dénonciateurs de notre liberté pervertie (12). Fable is never sad in its pessimism (but what of Gay's Hare's Friends ?). There is good help at the end of the book: AI, extensive lexicon and a list of proper names, dedications and contemporaries. A final dossier historique et littéraire offers wonderful material, especially the Fable and Fabulists, Filmography and Adaptations, and a bibliography. The first of these gives an excellent, if Gallocentric, sweep through history, including fables as plays and proofs for God's existence! After La Fontaine, fable moves toward contes en vers (452). The twentieth century sees a decline in the genre. A little treasurehouse!

Identifier

en_US 2266030736

en_US 1314 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76890

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Presses Pocket

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Fab 1989 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole