Fabule
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Baranga, Aurel
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1977
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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".
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Editura Eminescu
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