Team:

Juan Ignacio Nava Lpez 5E

Luis Csar Carln Gonzlez
Rey Jos Roberto


Historical Development of the fable in western culture

Oral Tradition
is a form of human communication wherein

knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is

received, preserved and transmitted orally from
one generation to another.The transmission is
through speech or song and may include
folktales, ballads, chants, prose or verses.

Aesop
(550
B.C)
Aesop's fables originated in ancient times. They
were compiled in the
fourth century. C. by

Demetrio de Falero, but this collection was lost.

The main collection of fables attributed to Aesop
where many modern editions are based is the
Augustana, anonymous call, that some authors
dating I or II the century and others in the V
century, and is complemented by two other
anonymous collections, Vindobonensis , the sixth
century and Accursiana probably the ninth
century.

Panchatranta (1000
B.C)

The Panchatantra is a collection of fables in

Sanskrit language, prose and verse, composed
after the third century. C. is attributed to
Vishnu Sharma.

Seven Wise Masters (1000 B.C.)

The cycle of stories, which appears in many

European languages, is of Eastern origin. An
analogous collection occurs inSanskrit, attributed
to theIndianphilosopher Sindibad/Syntipasin the
first century BC, though the Indian original is
unknown. Other suggested origins arePersian
(since the earliest surviving texts are in Persian)
andHebrew(a culture with similar tales, such as
that of the biblicalJoseph) .

Jean de La Fontaine
(1621
B.C.)

Jean de La Fontainewas the most famous

Frenchfabulistand one of the most widely read French
poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for
hisFables, which provided a model for
subsequentfabulists across Europe and numerous
alternative versions in France, and in French regional
languages.
According toFlaubert, he was the only French poet to
understand and master the texture of theFrench
languagebeforeVictor Hugo. A set ofpostage stamps
celebrating La Fontaine and theFableswas issued by
France in 1995.

John Gay (1732 B.C.)

John Gay was an Englishpoetanddramatistand

member of theScriblerus Club. He is best remembered

forThe Beggar's Opera(1728), aballad opera. The
characters, includingCaptain Macheathand Polly
Peachum, became household names.

Felix Maria de
Samaniego
(1745)

HisFbulas(17811784), one hundred and

fifty-seven in number, were originally written
for the boys educated in the school founded
by the Biscayan Society.
In the first installment of his fables he
admitted that he had takenToms Iriartefor
his model

Jean-Pierre Claris de
Florian (1755)

To modern readers, Florian is chiefly known as

the author of pretty fables well suited as
reading for the young.
Florian was very fond of Spain and its
literature, doubtless owing to the influence of
his Castilian mother, and both abridged and
imitated the works of Cervantes.

Jos Joaqun
Fernndez de
Lizardi(1776)

November 15, 1776 June 21,

1827,Mexicanwriter and politicaljournalist,
best known as the author ofEl Periquillo
Sarniento(1816).
The first issue of hisEl Pensador
Mexicano("The Mexican Thinker," a title he
adopted as his own pseudonym) came out on
October 9, just four days after press freedom
was allowed.

Rafael Pombo (1833)

In spite of his extensive and diverse literary

works, Rafael Pombo is mostly remembered
for this contribution to children's literature.
Among his most popular children's fables
areMichn,Juan Chunguero,Pastorcita,La
Pobre Viejecita,Simn el Bobito,El Gato
Bandido, andEl Renacuajo paseador.

Jos Rosas Moreno

(1838)

He was a poet of minor tone. His lyrical works contain

several mildness and sweetness, nostalgia and gentle
melancholy. He also wrote several plays for children,
poems and stories of Mexico reading books for children.
Much of his collection of poems was published in 1891
under the title "Bouquet of Violets" with a foreword by
Ignacio Altamirano. "The return to the village" is one of
his last romantic texts, indicator of the influence of the
work of Becquer in Mexican poetry.

Felix Salten (1869)

His most famous work is BAMBI(1923). It was translated

into English in 1928 and became a Book-of-the-Month
Club success.

George Orwell (1903)

Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and

polemical journalism. He is perhaps best known for his
dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in
1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945. In
2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50
greatest British writers since 1945".

Juan Jos Arreola

(1918)

Juan Jose Arreola Zuniga was a writer, scholar,

translator and editor Mexican. Self-taught (he never
finished primary) he played the most diverse trades
throughout his life. Thanks to works like Confabulario
(1952) Bestiary (1959) and Fair (1963) is considered
one of the most important drivers of fantastic story
contemporary in Mexico well as one of the greatest
exponents of Latin American minifiction, along with
Julio Torri and Augusto Monterroso.

Augusto Monterroso
(1921)

Narrador y ensayista, empez a publicar sus textos a

partir de 1959, ao en que se public la primera
edicin de Obras completas (y otros cuentos),
conjunto de incisivas narraciones donde comienzan
a notarse los rasgos fundamentales de su narrativa:
una prosa concisa, breve, aparentemente sencilla
que sin embargo est llena de referencias cultas, as
como un magistral manejo de la parodia, la
caricatura, y el humor negro.