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Jean de La Fontaine Fables Poetry ClassicismSujets proches
Poems Hours (Time) Poetry--Philosophy Poems Verses (Poetry) Literary genetics Literary types (Genres) Genres of literature Form, Literary Literary forms Forms, Literary Genre, Literary Forms of literature Literary genres Genre (Literature) Genres, Literary Pseudo-classicismCiter ce document
Céline Bohnert, « Jean de La Fontaine, The Fables of La Fontaine », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société - notices sans texte intégral, ID : 10670/1.c135bc...
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When the first Fables choisies, mises en vers par Monsieur de La Fontaine [Selected Fables, set to verse by M. de La Fontaine] were released in 1668, the poet was forty-seven years old. From then on, he would continue to experiment with a poetic form which he turned towards a wider audience. La Fontaine made his fables a humble but crucial vantage point on human nature and the society of his time, in the manner of La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)’s Maximes and La Bruyère (1645-1696)’s Caractères. He thus expanded the genre’s potential, as his style benefited from his practice of many other literary forms: tale, epic, idyll, novel, and dramatic genres. Indeed, the Fables’ lyrical quality results from their versatility, their allusive yet suggestive manner, their musical and rhythmical inventiveness, and from the discrete yet intimate presence of the fabulist behind the scenes.
