Fifty Fables of La FontaineFinally available in paperback--the original collection of La Fontaine fables by the award-winning translator Norman Shapiro, working his alchemy by transforming the accompanying original French verses into equally valuable and brilliant English gold. These wonderfully wrought moral tales charm children with bright and basic truths as they delight adults with reflectively subtle, sophisticated facets of wit and wisdom. |
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Page xi
... least a few La Fontaine examples , even if only for the sake of appearances , not to mention scholarly and aesthetic completeness . Once the spigot was turned on , how- ever , I quickly began to play the sorcerer's apprentice : the work ...
... least a few La Fontaine examples , even if only for the sake of appearances , not to mention scholarly and aesthetic completeness . Once the spigot was turned on , how- ever , I quickly began to play the sorcerer's apprentice : the work ...
Page xiii
... least for me . I do it , quite simply , because I enjoy it . No deeper , more transcendent reason than that . For me , artistic translation is a form of recreation ; some people play bridge . Perhaps this makes me sound a little ...
... least for me . I do it , quite simply , because I enjoy it . No deeper , more transcendent reason than that . For me , artistic translation is a form of recreation ; some people play bridge . Perhaps this makes me sound a little ...
Page xiv
... least we know enough to make the attempt . As for how it's done , while the tune can be taught and learned , the tone , I suspect , is a matter of intuition . No tin ears need apply . It helps though , I'm sure , to like the author in ...
... least we know enough to make the attempt . As for how it's done , while the tune can be taught and learned , the tone , I suspect , is a matter of intuition . No tin ears need apply . It helps though , I'm sure , to like the author in ...
Page xvi
... least known , of the French poetic genres - has been practiced from the Middle Ages uninterruptedly to modern times . ( For a comprehensive view , see my volume , The Fabulists French : Nine Centuries of the French Verse Fable in ...
... least known , of the French poetic genres - has been practiced from the Middle Ages uninterruptedly to modern times . ( For a comprehensive view , see my volume , The Fabulists French : Nine Centuries of the French Verse Fable in ...
Page xvii
... least in spirit , to the restrained freedom of those vers libérés than to the total freedom of the subsequent vers libres . 4. Too long , indeed , for inclusion here . Several dozen are translated and discussed in The Fabulists French ...
... least in spirit , to the restrained freedom of those vers libérés than to the total freedom of the subsequent vers libres . 4. Too long , indeed , for inclusion here . Several dozen are translated and discussed in The Fabulists French ...
Contents
III | xx |
IV | xxi |
V | 2 |
VI | 3 |
VII | 6 |
VIII | 7 |
IX | 8 |
X | 9 |
LIV | 58 |
LV | 59 |
LVI | 60 |
LVII | 61 |
LVIII | 62 |
LIX | 63 |
LX | 64 |
LXI | 65 |
XI | 10 |
XII | 11 |
XIII | 12 |
XIV | 13 |
XV | 14 |
XVI | 15 |
XVII | 16 |
XVIII | 17 |
XIX | 18 |
XX | 19 |
XXI | 19 |
XXII | 19 |
XXIII | 19 |
XXIV | 19 |
XXV | 20 |
XXVI | 21 |
XXVII | 24 |
XXVIII | 25 |
XXIX | 28 |
XXX | 29 |
XXXI | 30 |
XXXII | 31 |
XXXIII | 32 |
XXXIV | 34 |
XXXV | 35 |
XXXVI | 35 |
XXXVII | 35 |
XXXVIII | 38 |
XXXIX | 39 |
XL | 42 |
XLI | 43 |
XLII | 43 |
XLIII | 43 |
XLIV | 44 |
XLV | 45 |
XLVI | 48 |
XLVII | 49 |
XLVIII | 52 |
XLIX | 53 |
L | 54 |
LI | 55 |
LII | 56 |
LIII | 57 |
LXII | 66 |
LXIII | 67 |
LXIV | 68 |
LXV | 69 |
LXVI | 70 |
LXVII | 71 |
LXVIII | 72 |
LXIX | 73 |
LXX | 76 |
LXXI | 77 |
LXXII | 80 |
LXXIII | 81 |
LXXIV | 82 |
LXXV | 83 |
LXXVI | 84 |
LXXVII | 85 |
LXXVIII | 86 |
LXXIX | 87 |
LXXX | 88 |
LXXXI | 89 |
LXXXII | 90 |
LXXXIII | 91 |
LXXXIV | 92 |
LXXXV | 93 |
LXXXVI | 93 |
LXXXVII | 93 |
LXXXVIII | 93 |
LXXXIX | 93 |
XC | 96 |
XCI | 97 |
XCII | 100 |
XCIII | 101 |
XCIV | 103 |
XCV | 103 |
XCVI | 106 |
XCVII | 107 |
XCVIII | 108 |
XCIX | 109 |
C | 110 |
CI | 111 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aesop assez autre avoit Ayant bâton beast beau bien Bœuf C'est Celui-ci Cerf chose Ciel commère contre Corbeau coup d'une Dauphin deux Dieu Dieux dire dit-il dolphin Elle enfants enfin étoit être eût Fables Fabulists Fabulists French faire fait faut Fontaine Fontaine's Frog Garo gens Gland grand Grand Vizier Grenouille haut homme J'ai J'en jamais Jauffret jeune jour l'autre L'HOMME l'on L'un La Fontaine LA FOURMI LE CORBEAU le Cygne Lion Loup Love mainte maître mieux moindre mon affaire monde Monsieur Mouton n'en n'est n'étoit pareil pauvre peine père petit peut pieds Piraeus plaindre Pot de fer qu'elle qu'il qu'on qu'un raison Renard rien s'en S'il sage Seamus Heaney seul SHE-BEAR souvent Stag Styx Sultan Tantôt temps Tereus terre tête tout translation trouva Vaugirard verse fable vieux voilà voir vouloit voyant wolf