La Fontaine Et Buffon Dans Leurs Descriptions Des Animaux
Abstract
In the seventeenth century, one of the things impossible for a job was to "make beasts."1 The only interest in literature seemed to be salon life. La Fontaine, with the shyness which is very particular to him, a shyness which is rather temerity - approaches the subject and puts it in vogue, without making noise, without the great lords and great ladies even realizing that these animals which so repugnant to them until then now amuses them. A century later, Buffon would go further and present animals, no longer hiding men, but animals as such.
Subject Area
French literature|Literature
Recommended Citation
L'Esperance, Francis Louise, "La Fontaine Et Buffon Dans Leurs Descriptions Des Animaux" (1936). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28960331.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28960331
