Fables and Parables (Bajki i przypowieści, 1779), by Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801), is a work in a long international tradition of fable-writing that reaches back to antiquity.
Krasicki's fables and parables have been described as being, "[l]ike Jean de La Fontaine's [fables],... amongst the best ever written, while in colour they are distinctly original, because Polish."[1]
They are, according to Czesław Miłosz, "the most durable among Krasicki's poems."[2]
- ^ "[Krasicki's] 'Fables' (1779) are, like all others at that time in Europe, imitations of Lafontaine, but none were so like their model as Krasicki's. Like Lafontaine's, Krasicki's are amongst the best ever written, while in colour they are distinctly original, because Polish." Catholic Online.
- ^ Czesław Miłosz, The History of Polish Literature, p. 178.