The French poet and man of letters Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was one of the great French classical authors. He preferred to work in relatively minor and unexploited genres, such as the fable and the verse tale. While he did not hesitate to borrow f...
Jean de La Fontaine is best known for his Fables choisies, mises en vers (Selected Fables, Put into Verse), published in twelve books from 1668 to 1693. Comprising more than two hundred short poems divided more or less evenly among the books, the collect...
La Fontaine: 'Fables'. By FANNY NEPOTE-DESMARRES. (Etudes litteraires) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 1999. 126 pp. 48 F. Despite its modest length, this little book is thought provoking. Fanny Nepote-Desmarres begins by defining the Lafontainean fable. She does full justice to its complexity...
Ces quatre etudes sur La Fontaine ne manquent pas de parler des Contes, mais c'est aux Fables qu'est consacree la majeure partie des analyses. La premiere question que pose David Lee Rubin est celle du genre: qu'est-ce qu'une fable? Examinant l'histoire du genre depuis...
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