Both Uses
parable
in
Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
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- Literature must consist of parables, stripped of detail and almost independent of language.†
*parables = short stories told to teach moral lessons
- The parables—this is where Tolstoy differs from the average vulgar puritan—must themselves be works of art, but pleasure and curiosity must be excluded from them.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(parable) a short story told to teach a moral lesson -- especially those told by Jesus in the New Testament
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)