Les Contes et nouvelles en vers de La FontaineLicence et mondanité
Publication type: Book
Author:Bermann (Mathieu)
Preface writer:Leplatre (Olivier)
Abstract: The poetic license of the Contes is due less to subversion than to a special dispensation granted by their fashionable readers. This poetry is situated at the boundary between what is permissible and what is forbidden; it reflects an ironic classicism towards its own codes and rests on collusion with the reader.