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The Nouvelles Récréations et Joyeaux Devis of Bonaventure des Périers are here translated for the first time into modern English. The translators have been successful in retaining the vitality of this important French Renaissance satirist, turning his colloquial sixteenth-century French into equally colloquial and lively American. The translation of the 129 tales is prefaced by a biographical study of des Périers both as man and artist, and a critical bibliography is also included.

Raymond C. La Charité and Virginia A. La Charité are associate professors of French at the University of Kentucky.

Publication Date

1972

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky

Place of Publication

Lexington, KY

ISBN

9780813153490

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9780813163697

Keywords

Bonaventure des Périers, Satire, French satire

Disciplines

French and Francophone Language and Literature

Notes

Translated and with an introduction and notes by Raymond C. La Charité and Virginia A. La Charité.

Translation of Nouvelles Récréations et Joyeux Deviz.

Bonaventure des Périers's Novel Pastimes and Merry Tales
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