Title : Fables - Jean de La Fontaine - book

Summary :

The Fables occupy a singular place in our memory: through the memory we keep of these poems before which we remained children, but also through the grace of so many verses that have become proverbial and that our daily speech brings back to life. And everything happens as if a secret correspondence is maintained from century to century between these Fables and the identity of our country as well as our language.
The first collection appeared in 1668, and the second ten years later. The success was immense, and the poems then fully belonged to their time: the France of the reign of Louis XIV. But the mystery of their power is to quickly free themselves from this immediate environment, to illuminate our successive realities, to always brilliantly combine the particular and the universal. In this "comedy with a hundred different acts, / And whose stage is the Universe," the text eludes any definitive meaning. But La Fontaine, on every page, convinces us that poetry, in his eyes, remains an instrument of knowledge: there is a beauty in knowledge - and we never cease to find it in it.

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