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5.0 out of 5 stars
The frog who wanted to be as big as an ox,
By Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Selected Fables (Penguin Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)
LaFontaine was born in 1621 in Chatieur Thierry on the Marne. He was the son of a provincial office and was himself slated to be that. Instead he wandered off to Paris, had a number of patrons , tried to write great and noble verses but had his one great success with the Fables. The Fables taken from Aesop, and the Indian fabulist Bidpai were written in verse. They were published in two volumes, the first of which is considered the superior. They often take a kind of dual subject form, i.e. the this and the that, the Cicada and the Ant, the Crow and the Fox , the Wolf and the Lamb.James Michie's translation is according ton Geoffrey Grigson who introduces this volume the best one. But I do not feel it really succeeds as poetry.I read the little one- dimensional stories as prose. They have a touch of the cruelty Fables often have and the stories and morals do not most often rise above the commonplace. But generations have read and enjoyed these fables and what is my taste that it should argue against them?
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Selected Fables (Penguin Classics) by J. J. Grandville (Mass Market Paperback - December 16, 1982)
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