Nouvelles Fables Humoristiques

Title

en_US Nouvelles Fables Humoristiques

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US #453 of 500

en_US Lucien Richard

Creator

en_US Richard, Lucien

Contributor

en_US Preface de Paul Reboux

Date

2016-01-25T20:12:07Z

en_US 2003-12

en_US 1956

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:12:07Z

Date Issued

en_US 1956

Abstract

en_US Reboux starts off this pamphlet with a scorching indictment of contemporary culture. The only hope, he proclaims, is poetry. La survivance de la poésie est notre gage de résurrection (8). Richard offers fifteen fables. He is not in Shapiro's The Fabulists French. I have tried several. In the first, a glow-worm beckons to a snail to come down and enjoy his light (11-12). The snail does so, and the glow-worm immediately attacks, kills, and eats him. The moral says that there are humans more ferocious than the glow-worm. They devour people's goods, flesh, and skin -- and then leave the shell for another to inhabit. I find L'Enfant et les Poissons (37-38) curious. A father asks his son to serve himself from the fishes prepared for a meal. He takes the biggest. Mother and daughter likewise serve themselves. The father is left at the end with the smallest fish. The father says that propriety asks that in such situations one take the smallest. Would you have acted thus? the son asks. Yes! Good. You got the piece you wanted! The moral suggests that kids are imbued with a logic that they lose in growing up; that is the confusing part to me. Le Savant et la Mouche (39-40) presents a typical Streitgedicht. After the bug has bothered the scholar for a while, the scholar asks if the bug could not do something positive for him, perhaps save him time. The bug answers that the man is wasting time. If he were an athlete, he could gain some honor. As it is, he will remain nothing but a pawn. With that the bug adds a period to what the man is writing. In the moral, Richard exclaims that intellectuals will not attain the renown of athletes. But they will know the pleasure of intellectual achievement. The rest is all nothing but wind. #453 of 500 copies.

Identifier

en_US 7880 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83131

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Les Paragraphes Litteraires de Paris

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PN984.R53 1956

en_US Lucien Richard

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole