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The remarkable stories included in this volume, published in the 1730s, show a marked evolution in the contes de fées, each being more substantial, and more imaginatively innovative than its predecessor.
Although they clearly attempt to take up where Baronne d’Aulnoy and Comtesse de Murat had been forced to leave off, in terms of their imaginative extravagance, their use of metamorphoses and their quirky employment of allegory exhibit a further development in the direction of the calculatedly absurd and the surreal.
These are not the only works of the period to extrapolate its licensed
disorder to the chaotic brink of surrealism, but they do so more self-consciously
than most. The stories gathered herein provide an intriguing kaleidoscopic
pattern, and can justly be reckoned to be more than the sum of their parts.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Three contes de fées (1735) attributed to Catherine de Lintot:
Timandre and Bleuette
Prince Sincere
Tendrebrun and Constance
The Marvelous Voyage of Prince Fan-Férédin in Romancia
by Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougéant (1788)
Funestine by Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps
(1737)
Cover by Mike Hoffman
Published by Black Coat Press in December 2018
ISBN: 978-1-61227-812-4
