Fables de Mon Jardin

Abstract

First published in 1936. Here is a copy from 1936, and it is already the thirty-first printing! This copy is beautifull bound with a leather spine and marbled boards. It is inscribed in 1936. I am disappointed not to find Duhamel in The Fabulists French. As I wrote of my 1946 copy, there are eighty fables here on 229 pages, followed by a T of C. I tried about four or five of the fables. They really are about the garden, and they are fables. They tend to be highly reflective, I think. They do not seem to work particularly off of traditional models. Duhamel was known for his atheism and compassion. It is frustrating for me to be close to good literature like this and not be able to track it well linguistically.