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Synopsis
A comic genius and a wicked delight--The Decameron revisited.
Generations of children have been brought up on La Fontaine's fables. Only an absentminded or perversely liberal parent, however, would leave the same author's Contes et nouvelles en vers lying around the nursery. The Contes were the fruit of La Fontaine's wicked delight in the saucy tales he found in Boccaccio's Decameron, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Rabelais's Pantagruel, and elsewhere. Marital misdemeanors, resourceful females, and addled males proved the inspiration for some rich, inventive plotting. The stories' impact at the time is attested not only by the difficulties their author incurred in gaining election to the French Acadmie but also by the thriving trade in pirated editions after French printers failed to obtain official license to issue them. In the three hundred years that followed, the Contes were relegated to the least-accessible library shelves, and even today there barely exists an English translation of the complete set. France has over the centuries produced notable comic geniuses; the best known are perhaps Rabelais and Molire. On the evidence of these hitherto neglected Tales in Verse, La Fontaine clearly deserves a place with them.
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About the Author
Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a contemporary of Molire, Racine, and Boileau. His series Contes et nouvelles en vers first appeared in 1665, and his first book of fables in 1668.
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- PublisherFarrar Straus Giroux
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1860464386
- ISBN 13 9781860464386
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
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