by Jean de La Fontaine · Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080705686
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«Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon» is the mythological novel by Jean de La Fontaine, published by Flammarion in paperback (218 pages, in French).
Four friends stroll through the gardens of Versailles while one of them recounts the story of Psyche and Cupid: a retelling of the classical myth that combines fairy tale, Platonic allegory and courtly chronicle, with the poet's characteristic irony and style.
Number 568 in the GF collection. 1993 edition established by Françoise Charpentier, with introduction, commentary and notes by Michel Jeanneret. Work originally published in 1669.
For the general public, students of French literature and readers of classical mythology.
Jean Sybil La Fontaine FRAI is a British anthropologist and emeritus professor of the London School of Economics. She has done research in Africa and the UK, on topics including ritual, gender, child abuse, witchcraft and Satanism. In 1994 she wrote a government report: The Extent and Nature of Organised and Ritual Abuse.
