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Dec 22, 2022 · Fabulele lui Jean de la Fontaine au transformat povești populare tradiționale provenite de la Aesop și dintr-o serie de izvoare orientale în adevărate capodopere.
For the story of this fable, as for the stories of so many of the fables which follow, especially in the first six books, La Fontaine is indebted to the Father of Fable, Aesop the Phrygian. See account of Aesop in the Translator's Preface.
Jan 1, 2014 · The poet Jean de la Fontaine was born at Château-Thierry on July 8, 1621. He was a kindly, merry, and generous man and much beloved. His fables were written in verse and were published in three collections at different times of his life.
Nonetheless, truism for truism, exceptions confirm rules, witness Norman R. Shapiro's amazing translation of La Fontaine's Fables. The fabulist and Professor Shapiro, an eminent translator and self-defined La Fontaine "addict," have been dialoguing companionably for a long time.
Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are considered classics of French literature .
Dec 19, 2019 · The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine have long been regarded as one of the masterpieces of French classicism. In La Fontaine's hands, however, the fable is transformed into a poetic genre in which the relation between apologue and precept becomes problematized.
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May 30, 2005 · The poet Jean de la Fontaine was born at Château-Thierry on July 8, 1621. He was a kindly, merry, and generous man and much beloved. His fables were written in verse and were published in three collections at different times of his life. Many were new versions of existing fables; but those of his later years were more often original inventions.
