Les Contes et nouvelles en vers de La Fontaine

Licence et mondanite

by Mathieu Bermann, preface by Olivier Leplatre

Book cover: Les Contes et nouvelles en vers de La Fontaine

Extent: 498 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Lire le XVIIe siecle

Series volume number: 37, 4

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(June 2016)

ISBN: 9782812451348

Price: $69.00

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The poetic license of the Contes is due less to subversion than to a special dispensation granted by their fashionable readers. This poetry is situated at the boundary between what is permissible and what is forbidden; it reflects an ironic classicism towards its own codes and rests on collusion with the reader.


The poetic license of the Contes is due less to subversion than to a special dispensation granted by their fashionable readers. This poetry is situated at the boundary between what is permissible and what is forbidden; it reflects an ironic classicism towards its own codes and rests on collusion with the reader.

  • By (author) Mathieu Bermann
  • Preface by Olivier Leplatre