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A picture by François Chauveau, illustrator of the original edition of the Fables. Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse.
Title page of the 1575 printing. Tales of Count Lucanor (Old Spanish: Libro de los enxiemplos del Conde Lucanor et de Patronio) is a collection of parables written in 1335 by Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena.
La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (The Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea), or simply the Polifemo, is a literary work written by Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote.The poem, though borrowing heavily from prior literary sources of Greek and Roman Antiquity, attempts to go beyond the established versions of the myth by reconfiguring the narrative structure handed down by Ovid.
The title was Esopo no Fabulas and dates to 1593. It was soon followed by a fuller translation into a three-volume kanazōshi entitled Isopo Monogatari ( 伊曾保 物語 ) . [ 38 ] This was the sole Western work to survive in later publication after the expulsion of Westerners from Japan , since by that time the figure of Aesop had been ...
Jean de La Fontaine (UK: / ˌ l æ f ɒ n ˈ t ɛ n,-ˈ t eɪ n /, [1] US: / ˌ l ɑː f ɒ n ˈ t eɪ n, l ə-, ˌ l ɑː f oʊ n ˈ t ɛ n /; [2] [3] French: [ʒɑ̃ d(ə) la fɔ̃tɛn]; 8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.
Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or ...
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Historias breves ("Short Stories") is an Argentine feature-length film made up of nine short films directed, respectively, by Daniel Burman, Adrián Caetano, Jorge Gaggero, Tristán Gicovate, Andrés Tambornino and Ulises Rosell, Sandra Gugliotta, Lucrecia Martel, Pablo Ramos, and Bruno Stagnaro.