Fables, Vol. IV

Title

en_US Fables, Vol. IV

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

Alexis Rousset

Creator

en_US Rousset, Alexis See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2025-05-20T17:10:39Z

2025-03

en_US 1856?

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:39Z

Date Issued

en_US 1856

Abstract

en_US This fourth volume, covering Books XVI-XX, continues the mysteries of the first three. It ends abruptly after 239 rather than after 288, with neither a T of C for Volume IV nor an AI for Volumes I-IV. That AI apparently indicates where illustrations should occur in the four volumes. The same pattern occurs here as elsewhere: though the illustrations are more frequent here than in the two-volume edition, the overlap between the two sets is random. The images for the five fables investigated here do not occur there. In XVI 18 (42), the flower at the edge of the abyss that topples two children is pleasure. At XVIII 3 (110), the wolf steals from the lion; when the lion apprehends him, he lets him go. "A good turn is the noblest revenge." In XIX 6 (163), the bear tells the dog that he has had enough of human selfishness. Their conversation softens him from the human brutishness he has learned. In XIX 10 (174), a lion who has lost in battle tries to become a construction worker with beavers and turns out to be a poor workman. "He who shines at the top level loses his brilliance in the second level." In XIX 19 (196) a fox preacher is found out: when vice leaves us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving it. In XX 12 (237) we meet the "Ass As Artist": however much he loves music and tries to learn it, an ass cannot learn and finally needs to go to the slaughterhouse: "A braying donkey loses his mouth."

Identifier

en_US 13705 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/158059

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US L. Maison?

Subject

Alexis Rousset See all items with this value