In the course of her very long and peripatetic career, Doris Lessing has done just about everything, from naturalism to psychological realism, from postmodern experimentation to moralistic fable-making, from science fiction to horror stories.
But this non-moralistic way of looking at the euro-zone crisis seems pretty convincing to me.What I find really fascinating here, though, to get back to Mr Krugman's post, is that it doesn't occur to anyone to create a moralistic fable around the current-account balance disparities between American states.
During the same period, Molière displayed his vast and varied talents in the theatre, particularly as a writer of comedies; Jean de La Fontaine produced moralistic verse in his Fables; and Madame de La Fayette created the classic La Princesse de Clèves (1678), generally considered the first French psychological novel.
"You've slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out some folk songs, added some legendlike nonsense of your own invention, and are calling it fiction!" It is impossible not to be charmed by a writer who parodies himself so decisively.
There "are a lot of legends that never really go away," Mikkelson said, noting that "a lot of times," a legend's popularity "has to do with what's going on in the world". He added that the story's moralistic ending about artificial beauty makes him wonder if the tale originated from some kind of instructive fable.
The "Fables for Our Time" and the children's books — "The 13 Clocks," "The Wonderful O," et al. — tend to be too studied and moralistic.
Other people get moralistic.
10-13) Unidentified moralistic passages.
"Moralistic," said the DC.
