Contes et Fables: Texte Integral

Title

en_US Contes et Fables: Texte Integral

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Charles Perrault

Creator

en_US Frantová-Frühaufová, Eva See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Frantová, Eva

Date

2016-01-25T20:20:33Z

en_US 2012-07

en_US 2001

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:20:33Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

Abstract

en_US After Contes en Verse and Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé, a section titled Autres Contes et Fables runs from 281 through 344. Within that section there is a three-page version of FS and then a presentation of the Labyrinthe de Versailles in thirty-eight discrete sections (286). The latter is introduced by a two-page introduction which emphasizes the labyrinth's focus on love. What I have heard or intuited before is repeated here: that the water fountains are the voices of the animals. Cupid declares in an opening discussion with Apollo that love is itself a labyrinth. Cupid says that his advice, given in the statues and verses of the labyrinth, will help lovers to find their way out of the labyrinth that love is. Aesop and Cupid should stand at the entrance, since Aesop created the stories and Cupid created the lessons to be derived from them. The contrast between the attractive young Cupid and the ugly old Aesop should be fetching. Apollo then saw to the making of the labyrinth's lovely statues. And lovely they were! This time through, I have studied the prose summaries of Perrault, which are quite traditional, and his morals, which do in fact focus almost exclusively on love affairs. An example of the turning of a fable to love-concerns comes in Le Loup et le Porc-Epic (332-33). The wolf tells the porcupine that he would be prettier without quills. Yes, but they defend me is the answer; notice that it is not, as often, something like You would be prettier without those teeth! Perrault's moral: Young beauties, you will hear that you would be more beautiful if you were less cruel. Yes, but it is often a wolf who tells you that! The following fable presents the snake with many tails and the snake with many heads. The former could escape pursuit and the latter could not. The moral? In love, as in other matters, too many opinions are problematic; the surest thing is to follow along one's way. The Hawk and the Doves (334) turns into a comparison between the potential brutality of a spouse and of a non-spouse lover. The art is clever, soft-focussed, colorful, and sentimental. Among the better fable illustrations are The Cat Suspended and the Rats (298-99); FC (312-315); and FM (318-19). This big, heavy book closes with two longer verse works: Le Roseau du Nouveau Monde ou la Canne à Sucre and Métamorphose d'un Berger en Mouton.

Identifier

en_US 9782700014297

en_US 8641 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83867

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Gründ

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1877.A3 2001 See all items with this value

en_US Charles Perrault See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole