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d’As Fábulas de La Fontaine

About the qualities and defects of all of us, we are told stories of morals. But because man is a complicated being, the fable has been invented to illustrate behaviors that are simpler if they are played by animal characters. Let us be children or grown-up, we all perceive the fool’s false disdain beneath some delicious grapes, which he longs for but does not reach. We recognize the recklessness of the Ferret that lets herself get fat in the food pantry, when she knew how to escape if she could overcome gluttony. How many times do we remember the constancy of the tortoise and the zealous care of the ant? They are small narratives like these that we owe to Aesop, still from the times of Ancient Greece, and later to Jean de La Fontaine, who already in the seventeenth century gave them a truly universal popularity. (…) being this my musical approach, which intends above all to be sober.

Lino Guerreiro