Ivan Krylov - Russian poet, playwright, translator and academician - is well-known throughout the world.A genre in which he is particularly famous for - a fable.Rooster and Cuckoo, The Fox and the Crow, Ant and the Grasshopper, Donkey and the Nightingale - these and many other images, metaphorically exposing a variety of human vices, familiar to us from childhood.
like the wings was the fabulist
compose fables poet began almost by accident: translated several works of the Frenchman La Fontaine, whom he loved from his early youth, the experience was a success.Natural Krylov wit, subtle linguistic flair and a penchant for folk apt mot could not be better matched with enthusiasm this genre.An overwhelming number of the more than two hundred of Krylov's fables - original created on the basis of personal experience and observations and have no analogues among other works fabulist.
Every nation has its own more or less well-known author, enriched the national treasury of fables and parables.In Germany Lessing and Sachs, in Italy - and Faerno Verditsotti, France - Odan and Lafontaine.A special role in the origin and development of the genre plays a Greek author Aesop.Wherever needed biting ridicule and precisely the phenomena that distort and distort life, he came to the aid of a fable.Rooster and Cuckoo Aesop or that the poet can act in the guise of other animals, insects or things, but the essence remains the same fable: it heals satire immorality.
fable "The Cuckoo and Rooster»
The plot is based on dialogue between the two sick birds singing.This is a very funny fable.Rooster and praise singing Cuckoo vying with each other.Everyone knows that cry Kochety not melodious, no wonder there is an expression "to cock" when it comes to lost his voice.The voice of the cuckoo too difficult to call euphonious.However Rooster Cuckoo fan of the first singer of the forest, and she says that he sings "better a bird of paradise."The sparrow flew past intimate companions indicates that no matter how they excelled in the praise, the truth is that their "bad music."
But perhaps, in vain over them laughing author and unfair fable?Rooster and Cuckoo - good friends and support each other nice things - what's wrong with that?Let's look at the dynamics of the plot.First Cuckoo far from the truth, she said that the rooster is singing loud and important.He gives back more pretentious praise.Cuckoo graciously receives flattering words, it is their "age listening" is ready.Praises interlocutor become even flamboyance and did not correspond to reality, but Rooster and swears that the cuckoo sings "what is your nightingale."That thanks, zealous in mutual praise, too, "in good conscience" assures us that it will confirm every word.And just at that moment, Sparrow rejects immoderate speech both birds.The author skillfully emphasizes that the obsequious praise of heroes insincere, that in fact neither the one nor the other did not feel that admiration, which they say.Why do they do it?The moral of the fable "The Cuckoo and the Rooster" is obvious: just because they get a response flattery.
How did work?
fable was published in the popular book "One Hundred Russian writers" and is equipped with a cartoon depicting a Rooster Cuckoo and two contemporaries Krylov - novelist Nicholas Grech and writer Thaddeus Bulgarin.The duo was known that both the writer irrepressible praised each other in print.The original version of the fable hint of real events is brighter, and morality sounds the idea that, no matter how many characters or "burned incense" to each other, their talent will not increase.In the final version, however, the idea is derived beyond the particular case.Because of this and became so urgent, this fable.Rooster and Cuckoo often lurking in each of us, when we hypocritically touted someone in the calculation to get into your e-flattering words.
