Title : Fables - Alain-Marie Bassy - book

Summary :

La Fontaine says it again and again: Fables are not what they seem. A curious teacher, no doubt, this poet who dedicates his work to the Dauphin, and who claims to use, to educate this young man, the weapon of "lies." For Fables hide, disguise, simulate, and dissimulate at the same time. We must learn to read them. To do this, we must dismantle their mechanisms and their subtle codes, rediscover the secret architecture that orders them. Fables are a trap, a lure, the reverse of appearances; to appreciate them, it is necessary to turn the evidence inside out. Jean-Jacques Rousseau understood this well, writing in Émile: "We make all the children learn La Fontaine's fables, and there is not a single one who understands them. Even if they did, it would be even worse; because morality is so mixed up and so disproportionate to their age, that it would lead them more to vice than to virtue."

• EAN: 9782081207172
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