Kriloff's Original Fables - Softcover

Krylov, Ivan Andreevich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1235653870 ISBN 13: 9781235653872

Verlag: General Books LLC, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... KRILOFF'S FABLES. The classification of the fables already given will enable me to shorten my remarks on this part of my subject, and I am the more glad to do so, because any lengthened criticism of an author by his translator is apt to convey the impression that the latter is indirectly praising his own work. In the little which I shall here say of Kriloff's fables, I must beg my readers to bear in mind that it is intended for what they are in Russian, their value in English being a very different question, which, declining to raise, I leave to the public. Those who take the trouble to look at the chronological list, and to compare it with the preceding biography, will no doubt perceive that Kriloff began by translating from La Fontaine, and gradually gained confidence in his own powers as an original writer. Again, the tables showing the sources of the borrowed fables, compared with the chronological list, will show that in 1818, in his fifty-first year, in consequence of the study of Greek mentioned in the biography, he began to take fables direct from Esop. The notes to the various fables will, I hope, have shown, and still more clearly the fables themselves, what I have felt fully justified in insisting on all through, his vast superiority over La Fontaine. Kriloff wrote in all one hundred and two fables, and that is a small number if we consider that he wrote during thirty years; but his laziness has been mentioned, and the chronological list will show not a few years in which he produced nothing. The fables that have a special application to Russian affairs prove Kriloff's ardent patriotism, his sound judgment, his fearless exposure of all abuses, and his sympathy, though belonging, by his education and literary connections, to what may be called "...

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• Verlag: General Books LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1235653870
• ISBN 13: 9781235653872
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 58