Item
Fabule
- Title
- en_US Fabule
- Description
- en_US Language note: Romanian
- Aurel Baranga
- Creator
- en_US Baranga, Aurel See all items with this value
- Date
- 2023-09-20T15:17:09Z
- 2023-01
- en_US 1977
- Date Available
- 2023-09-20T15:17:09Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1977
- Abstract
- en_US Here are short original verse (?) fables by a fascinating author who spanned pre and post war Romania and apparently wrote a confessional essay before his death about submitting too much to Communist state direction of how he should write, with resulting dishonesty about his characters. As an introduction, he asks in a brief poem "Why compete with Aesop? Until now you have written only comedies." He answers "Because in every fable there is a touch of tragedy." I tried a few, even though the Romanian here seems highly idiomatic. Is the moral to his "Moral Fable" (4) something like "If she will not have sex with you, at least gossip and criticize"? "Meditative Fable" (9) seems to have a philosophical mouse praising both prudence and experience . . . from his place in the cat's stomach. "Measure your success" another philosopher proclaims "by the length of your nose" (10). This philosopher is an elephant. I'd love to read these in English, or else I wish I could read Romanian! These seem to be witty fables! This is our eighth book in Romanian. Not illustrated. 190 pages, with a closing T of C. 5" x 7¾".
- Identifier
- en_US 13300 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US rum
- Publisher
- en_US Editura Eminescu
- en_US Bucharest, Romania
- Subject
- Aurel Baranga See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books