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{{Short description|1779 work by Ignacy Krasicki}} {{italic title}} [[File:Ignacy Krasicki 111.PNG|thumb|upright=1.5|[[Ignacy Krasicki]]]] '''''Fables and Parables''''' (''Bajki i przypowieści'', 1779), by [[Ignacy Krasicki]] (1735–1801), is a work in a long international tradition of [[fable|fable-writing]] that reaches back to antiquity. Krasicki's fables and parables have been described as being, "[l]ike [[Jean de La Fontaine]]'s [fables],... amongst the best ever written, while in colour they are distinctly original, because Polish."<ref>"[Krasicki's] 'Fables' (1779) are, like all others at that time in Europe, imitations of Lafontaine, but none were so like their model as Krasicki's. Like Lafontaine's, Krasicki's are amongst the best ever written, while in colour they are distinctly original, because Polish." [http://www.liturgical.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=6712 ''Catholic Online''].</ref> They are, according to [[Czesław Miłosz]], "the most durable among Krasicki's poems."<ref>Czesław Miłosz, ''The History of Polish Literature'', p. 178.</ref>
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