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Abstract This study compares animal imagery in Augusto Monterroso’s fables especially in The Black Sheep and Other Fables and selected two short stories Vaca y El dinosaurio from his Complete Works and Other Stories with short stories by Yahya Haqqi that appeared for the first time in The Lamp of Umm Hashim and Other Stories (1944) and then appeared in later editions as Fola- Meshmesh- Lulu (2008) in addition to other works in where spreads the animal symbology, applying Gilbert Durand’s regarding anthropological symbolism which appears in his The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary. The study also resorts to the Dictionary of symbols by Jaen Chevalier. The study is based on a comparative analytical approach in order to reveal the point of view of each author towards animals and their significance. The study highlights the worldview of both authors and how they see the animal world, and also explores how far do both writers are affected by the culture to which they belong and its effect of their manipulation of animal symbology, highlighting the characteristics of the new fable and the classic fable which appears in the literary production of both authors. Finally, the research provides a detailed analysis of all the animal symbolism that appears in the literature of both Augusto Monterroso and Yahya Haqqi with a comparison between the way both writers employ animal symbolism and the impact of culture on their production and the ideology of each author towords animal symbolism |