Fables

What is a fable ?

A fable is a short narrative literary composition, usually in prose or verse, in which the main characters are usually animals or inanimate things that speak and act like humans Each fable tells, in plain style, a single, short story or anecdote with a sobering consequence It has " an intention and didactic writing of an ethical and universal nature" that almost always appears at the end and more rarely at the beginning.

generally called moral or fable. As a literary genre, it has a mixed narrative and didactic character, which La Fontaine already noticed when dividing it, in the prologue to his Fables (1667), into a fable proper or "body" and a moral or "soul". Because of its practical nature, which exempts it from philosophical or transcendental intentions, it has come to be called "the poor relative of myth "