Popular Culture
A film of his life was released in France in April 2007 (Jean de La Fontaine - le défi, starring Lorant Deutsch). Astronomers named the asteroid 5780 Lafontaine in his honor upon the 300th anniversary of his birth.
Dan Chapman's 2012 novel Looking for Lucy uses an epigram from La Fontaine, 'On rencontre sa destinée souvent par des chemins qu'on prend pour l'éviter', meaning 'Destiny is often met in the paths we take to avoid it'.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)
“Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if his innovation is not accepted by audiences. High culture experiments that are rejected by audiences in the creator’s lifetime may, however, become classics in another era, whereas popular culture experiments are forgotten if not immediately successful. Even so, in both cultures innovation is rare, although in high culture it is celebrated and in popular culture it is taken for granted.”
—Herbert J. Gans (b. 1927)