From the publisher’s description:
La Fontaine’s victory is both striking and discreet. Everyone knows his fables, but often knows only that. By restoring to this work all its force, by respecting all its voices, Marcel Gutwirth shows us its singular coherence.
Gutwirth, Marcel (NHC Fellow, 1985–86). Un Merveilleux sans éclat: La Fontaine ou la poésie exilée. Histoire des idées et critique littéraire. Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 1987. ISBN .