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Title
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Petites Fables
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Description
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Language note: French
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Joseph-Victor Zaug
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Creator
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Zaug, Joseph-Victor
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Contributor
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Daniel Sinclare
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Date
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2016-08-26T13:38:56Z
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2015-11
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1965
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Date Available
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2016-08-26T13:38:56Z
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Date Issued
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1965
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Abstract
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"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."
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Identifier
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10831 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Éditions Médicis
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Paris
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Subject
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PQ2686. A84P4 1965
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Joseph-Victor Zaug
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole