Fables

The fable is a poetic or prosaic literary work of a satirical nature containing morality - a brief moralizing conclusion. In the fable in allegorical form, vices of people are ridiculed. This is one of the oldest literary genres, the first fabulist is considered Aesop, who lived in the VI century BC. e.
I.A. Krylov was a famous fabric of domestic literature, in his entire life he wrote more than 200 fables, the most famous of them "swan. Pike and cancer "," Dragonfly and Ant "," Quartet "," Crow and Fox ". The author, as if in passing, makes fun of human shortcomings with witty hints: pride, selfishness, vanity, stupidity. Many lines of the fables I.A. Krylov became proverbs and winged expressions: “And you, friends, no matter how you sit down, are not good in the musicians”, “Sing, Svetik, don’t be ashamed!”, “The strong is always in powerless”, “The cuckoo praises the rooster for the fact that He praises a cuckoo "and many others