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La Fontaine's Bawdy - Of Libertines, Louts, and Lechers

La Fontaine's Bawdy - Of Libertines, Louts, and Lechers( )
Author: La Fontaine, Jean De
Translator: Shapiro, Norman R.
Series title:The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
ISBN:978-0-691-01532-3
Publication Date:Nov 1992
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $55.99
Book Description:

The Contes et nouvelles en vers of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were published at various times throughout his life, both before and after his celebrated Fables, between 1664 and 1685, and even posthumously. In quite a different key from the more innocent Fables, the Contes often threatened to get him in trouble with both Church and Acadmie. It was, indeed, the bawdy tales of Boccaccio, Rabelais, and other medieval and renaissance masters of ribaldry that inspired La...
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Book Details
Pages:304
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.3 x 23.5 x 0.8 cm
Book Weight:0.5 Kilograms
Author Biography
La Fontaine, Jean De (Author)
Although he had a degree to practice law, La Fontaine does not seem to have done so but, rather, spent his life in Paris dependent on aristocratic patrons. His principal contribution to literature was his 12 books of Fables, to which he devoted 30 years of his life. They were published from 1668 to 1694 and are universally appreciated in France by children and adults alike. In drawing on a tradition of the fable going back to Aesop, La Fontaine created a portrait of human life and French society through the representations of animals. His work is marked by great insight into human moral character, while it preaches the value of the middle road.

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