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)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/143628

Language

en_US rum

Publisher

en_US Editura Eminescu

en_US Bucharest, Romania

Subject

Aurel Baranga See all items with this value