Book Description | This is an educational play. . . Educational works in literature and art, from “Kalila and Dimna” to “La Fontaine’s Tales” to “Brecht’s” plays and other works of this type, aim to guide individual or social behavior. . It often does not hide its purposes . . Choose the expressions that immediately reach the souls and ingrain them in the minds. . She chooses the clearest and simplest means of expression. . Sometimes it uses putting wisdom and meaning directly as one of its weapons. . Unlike other art that hides its face and lets you discover what is behind it, it reveals the mask and tells you:
“Yes, I want to preach to you, so listen to me!” In the face of this frankness on her part, we listen to her with satisfaction. . Thus we listened, and are still listening, to the wisdom of “Kalila and Dimna,” the sermons of “La Fontaine,” and the educational play “Baden” by Brecht. . Without getting bored of what we hear. . This is because preaching in itself is an art, as long as it is presented to us in a beautiful form. All I ask then for this play; It is that its content be presented in a form that is not burdensome on the soul, and that it achieves, even to a small extent, the goals it aims to achieve. |