Title: Fables - La Fontaine - book
Summary :
"All children are taught La Fontaine's fables, and not a single one of them understands them. Even if they did, it would be even worse; for the morality is so mixed up and so disproportionate to their age that it would lead them more to vice than to virtue." These are the terms in which Rousseau, in Émile, speaks of the Fables. For the Fables are not what they seem; they 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. The Fables are a decoy, the reverse of appearances; to appreciate them, it is necessary to turn the evidence inside out.
