Loves.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 3240 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 202 p., paperback.` |
| Publication | Paris, 1997 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251799223 |
Classic bilingual collection. If the reader who holds this book in his hands does not like lightness, elegance, grace, banter, if he is unaware that seriousness is compatible with futility, let him not open it, and let him condemn its author as he would condemn the "Illustrious Shepherds", Théophile, Tristan, or even La Fontaine, Marivaux, Choderlos de Laclos... Let this improbable reader, whom the imagination would not conceive, if many critics had not reproached Ovid's Loves for their lightness, without seeing their grace, their futility without perceiving their seriousness, let this reader therefore also avoid looking at Fragonard's paintings and be wary of Mozart. If, despite this warning, he opens the book, let him rejoice, as he is invited to do by the introductory epigram, that the new edition of the work is shorter than the first. To other readers, who love Mozart and Fragonard, the Amours bring the pleasure, the voluptas, that the poet himself experienced, by playing with all the commonplaces and all the prohibitions to reveal the thousand and one surprises of amorous desire and to harass with the arrows of Cupid the staid and hypocritical society that surrounds it.
Classic bilingual collection. If the reader who holds this book in his hands does not like lightness, elegance, grace, banter, if he is unaware that seriousness is compatible with futility, let him not open it, and let him condemn its author as he would condemn the "Illustrious Shepherds", Théophile, Tristan, or even La Fontaine, Marivaux, Choderlos de Laclos... Let this improbable reader, whom the imagination would not conceive, if many critics had not reproached Ovid's Loves for their lightness, without seeing their grace, their futility without perceiving their seriousness, let this reader therefore also avoid looking at Fragonard's paintings and be wary of Mozart. If, despite this warning, he opens the book, let him rejoice, as he is invited to do by the introductory epigram, that the new edition of the work is shorter than the first. To other readers, who love Mozart and Fragonard, the Amours bring the pleasure, the voluptas, that the poet himself experienced, by playing with all the commonplaces and all the prohibitions to reveal the thousand and one surprises of amorous desire and to harass with the arrows of Cupid the staid and hypocritical society that surrounds it.