Despre fabulă, de la Panciatantra la schiţa dramatică în versuri a Ninei Cassian
On the Fable ,from Panciatantra to Nina Cassian s Versified Dramatic Sketch

Summary/Abstract: The Panciatantra or The Five Books of Wisdom is the first collection of fables in the history of mankind, written by a Brahman, as it is said, at a chancellor’s request, to help the princes who needed to be educated for leadership. Picked up by Aesop – its founder as a fixed literary genre – the fable passes, progressively, through various skilled and famous pens. Therefore, from the Greeks, probably by the versified translation of Babrios, it passed to the Romans, because of Phaedrus and Avianus. From there on it is taken on by the French Classicism in Jean de la Fontaine and Jean Pierre Claris de Florian writings. In the Enlightenment age it shines in the German literature with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and in the Russian literature it is assumed by Ivan Andreevici Krîlov and subsequently by Lev Nicolaevici Tolstoi’s talent. In Romanian literature, the first to stop at the fable is Dimitrie Ţichindeal, who discovers the epic fables of Dositei Obradovici and writes a Romanian edition. This is an outburst of the fabulists in our national literature, following: Gheorghe Asachi, Barbu Paris Mumuleanu, Anton Pann, Constache Negruzzi, Grigore Alexandrescu, George Sion, Ion Luca Caragiale, Tudor Arghezi, George Topârceanu, Otilia Cazimir şi Nina Cassian.

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