L’arbre qui cache la forêt Conversation et fiction dans la préface de Phèdre et Le Loup et l’Agneau

Devoted to the first collection of Latin fables, the Fables of Phaedrus, Jean-Pierre De Giorgio studies the affinities between fable and discursive practice through a comparison between Phaedrus’ preface and his “The Wolf and the Lamb”. The Roman fabulist delivers a veritable defence and illustration of the sermo and the powers of creative imagination, against a literature of contentio, a literature of debate anchored in reality.