Lucien, Comedies humaines
by Lucien and edited by Jacques Bompaire, translated by Anne-Marie Ozanam
Paperback (Out of print)
(July 2010)
ISBN: 9782251800158
4.29 x 7.13 inches
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Considere comme le Voltaire de l’Antiquite aux dires de Mme de Stael, Lucien, en moraliste enjoue, critique avec humour les vices et les faiblesses des hommes.
Je vois leur vie pleine de trouble, leurs cites pareilles a des ruches ou chacun a son propre aiguillon et pique son voisin, ou meme quelques rares individus, comme des guepes, ranconnent les plus faibles. Ainsi parle Charon, le batelier des Enfers, quand il decouvre la societe des hommes. Comme son personnage, Lucien jette sur les rapports humains un regard ironique et desabuse. Les figures qu’il nous presente, misanthropes, parvenus, parasites, superstitieux, pedants, hetaires…, sont pour la plupart des types empruntes a la comedie grecque: son oeuvre a le merite de conserver une trace de ces pieces, si prisees des Anciens, dont nous avons perdu la plus grande partie. En moraliste, Lucien juge severement la societe: il y voit triompher la convoitise et la vulgarite. Mais il choisit d’en rire, en suivant le conseil que Tiresias donne a son Menippe: Cours sans t’arreter, ris le plus souvent, et ne prends rien au serieux.
I- Timon ou le misanthrope
II- Contre l'inculte qui achete de nombreux livres III- Le Parasite IV- Philopseudes V- Sur les hotes a gages VI- Lexiphanes VII- Dialogue des hetaires- By (author) Lucien
- Edited by Jacques Bompaire
- Translated by Anne-Marie Ozanam
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