Bon Garçon
David Coward: La Fontaine’s fables, 7 February 2002
Complete Tales in Verse
by Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Guido Waldman.
Carcanet, 334 pp., £14.95, October 2000,9781857544824 Show More
by Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Guido Waldman.
Carcanet, 334 pp., £14.95, October 2000,
The Fables of La Fontaine: Wisdom Brought down to Earth
by Andrew Calder.
Droz, 234 pp., £36.95, September 2001,2 600 00464 5 Show More
by Andrew Calder.
Droz, 234 pp., £36.95, September 2001,
The Craft of La Fontaine
by Maya Slater.
Fairleigh Dickinson, 255 pp., $43.50, May 2001,0 8386 3920 8 Show More
by Maya Slater.
Fairleigh Dickinson, 255 pp., $43.50, May 2001,
“... but contentment and its precondition is the puncturing of self-esteem. In The Craft of La Fontaine Maya Slater agrees that the appropriate response to La Fontaine is suspicion: a view she justifies with micro-readings which peel back the layers of his writing and reveal as much craftiness as craft. Her careful study of La Fontaine’s cunning art adds a ... ”
