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La Fontaine's Bawdy: Of Libertines, Louts, and Lechers (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) Hardcover - 1993

by La Fontaine, Jean de


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The Contes et nouvelles en vers of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were published at various times throughout his life, both before and after his celebrated Fables, between 1664 and 1685, and even posthumously. In quite a different key from the more innocent Fables, the Contes often threatened to get him in trouble with both Church and Acadmie. It was, indeed, the bawdy tales of Boccaccio, Rabelais, and other medieval and renaissance masters of ribaldry that inspired La Fontaine's Contes, presented here in a chronologically and stylistically diverse selection translated by Norman R. Shapiro. This spirited recent translation, spanning the entire corpus, offers about half the tales, from early to late, in all their variety of lengths and poetic narrative forms. The mildly suggestive mingle with the frankly bawdy, while others would hardly raise a vicar's eyebrow. Yet all these gems from one of France's truly great poets, scrupulously faithful to the originals, are rendered with the spirit of his style, his subtle rhythms, cadences, rhymes, and delectable wit left intact.

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  • Title La Fontaine's Bawdy: Of Libertines, Louts, and Lechers (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)
  • Author La Fontaine, Jean de
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 304
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
  • Date 1993-01
  • ISBN 9780691069562
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