Fables

Résumé du livre

"In this collection of moral fables for our time, the author of A land exercises again her remarkable gift for bringing poetic imagination to bear on scientific knowledge. Wit her characteristic felicity of invention and style she expounds in them ideas which are always lurking in the depths of the imagination, but which wriggle away at the approach of rational analysis. While some of her fables have political themes, most of them are concerned with matters much closer to the heart of the human situation and reveal her sensitive understanding and ironic appreciation of the eternal dilemma of existence. Men and women, animals and birds, fish and insects are the actors in these fabulous dramas in which the traditional form of the fable has been extended ... to include fascinating details of their nature and habits."--Dust jacket flap.