A fable is a short and often humorous tale in which non-human characters (often animals, but also plants or supernatural creatures; rarely human beings) act and speak as human beings in order to exemplify a simple common truth in a metaphorical manner. 1. Introduction In international comparative literature studies, the fable as a literary genre has largely been defined against the backdrop of its Graeco-Roman history (Wienert; Rodríguez Adrados) and its further development in the European Middle Ages and Enlightenment periods (Dicke and Grubmüller). Even though there are