1. 1664 to 1685 wrote contes et new les en vers, based on Boccaccio, rabelais, Ariosto and others. Although the writing is elegant, there are many obscene scenes, which were rated as indecent by people at that time.
2. Fable poems are written between 1668 and 1694. The stories in the fable poems are not written by Lafontaine, but mainly come from Aesop and Phedros (Latin: Phaedrus, French: Phèdre) in ancient Greece, and the ancient Indian story collection Five Books (Pa? Chattantra; Sanskrit:? )。 However, Lafontaine brought forth the old and brought forth the new, pushing the traditional fable genre to a new height. His poetic style is flexible and changeable, with rich vocabulary and changeable meter. He is good at comparing people with animals and satirizing snobs and dignitaries.
3. The love between Puxuhe and Kubid written by1669 is a verse novel.
Creative characteristics
La Fontaine overcame the fable and boring moral preaching unique to the fable genre, and developed the visual art factor to the maximum extent. Thus chan that genre of fables. Many contemporaries criticized his innovation. They once regarded fables as some kind of similar educational stories. They feel that Feng Dan tried to "decorate" this fable with poetic style, which weakened its unique and enlightening clear direction. Belinsky once said to krylov's The Moral of Youth: "The moral of youth is not a metaphor, nor should it be a metaphor. If it is a good and poetic fable, it should be a short story or short play with characters and typical characters, and these characters and characters are described in poetry. " This view can also be used in Lafontaine's fable. La Fontaine's two works have always mastered the simple structure and the skill of selecting artistic details, and are good at dramatizing fables by using the rich language of the masses and using footwork free poems flexibly, which greatly expands the possibility of their modeling. As usual, the plot in Lafontaine's fable developed from the south. According to the fable writer Tuo Feng Dan, the driving force of the plot is the unique inner character and motivation of his hero (as a personality and a typical example). Therefore, in Lafontaine's works, the traditional moral teachings expressed in the form of poetry are often narrower than the ideological content objectively contained in the whole poem. This kind of teaching often has no mouth at all or just makes it a role, thus becoming a means to portray the characteristics of that role.
The influence of the work
La Fontaine's fables, together with Aesop's fables and krylov's fables, constitute the three highest monuments in the world's fables and become the spiritual wealth of all mankind. Among them, famous works, such as Wolf and Sheep, Crow and Fox, are widely circulated in many countries around the world. La Fontaine himself was widely praised as an outstanding representative of French classical literature in the17th century, and Turner, a famous French literary critic in the19th century, even praised him as "Homer of France". Hugo's Notre Dame and The Life of Mo Bosang both mentioned that he was a famous poet among French classical writers.