This short story, by Ivo Andrić, is about little sheep Aska, who had battle for her life and done it by dancing away, since her every ballet move and its beauty postponed the attack from the wolf, who, between fullness of his stomach and enjoying Aska's moves, chose, or better could not resist the dance. Even the author himself highlights: “We do not know what strength or what possibilities lie hidden in any living creature. Nor do we imagine all that we can do. We live and we die, but we do not know all that we could have become or could have done. Such insight is revealed to us only during momentous and exceptional events such as this one in which Aska danced her movements having already lost the life she had.”
This extraordinary short story is an allegory filled with symbols, with the main motif of battle for life. Unfortunately, in this piece of work, as well as in many throughout history of literature, wolf is depicted as slaughterer, put in a negative, dark side of the world and life context.