By Ursula K. Le Guin
A revised and up to date consultant to the necessities of a writer's craft, provided by means of a super practitioner of the paintings
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London: Routledge, 1994. 1 Short Shorts: Exploring Relevance and Filling in Narratives Paola Trimarco Miniature fictions under the title of ‘short shorts’ began to be anthologised in English in the 1980s, growing in popularity and prominence over the past few decades. Very short short stories existed long before then, however, with noteworthy examples found in Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, Jorge Luis Borges’s The Book of Imaginary Beings and Franz Kafka’s Parables and Paradoxes. A novelty in the repertoire of short stories, these briefer fictions were not studied as belonging to a genre in their own right, but rather they were studied as representations of the writing of a particular author, stories that could be linked thematically to other more prominent longer prose works, such as novels and autobiographical writings.
This sequence of tales that literally end in tears is obviously designed to make a point about Dubliners’ capacity for sentimentality and lachrymose self-pity. But there is also a key distinction being made here between the habitually blurred vision of Joyce’s tearful characters and the hard, unsentimental clarity of perspective shared by the author and his readers. What seems to be the case in Dubliners is that Joyce is taking a world where the content is full of futile repetitiveness – a world of ‘Night after night … night after night’ (1), ‘time and again’, ‘over and over’ (33), ‘up and down … up and down’ (134) – but where the literary form uses repetition creatively to derive symbolic meaning from this sterile cityscape.
10, 44, 121, 184) perpetrated by those in pursuit of sinister policies of racial purity or ontological hygiene. This fanatically intolerant mania for purity produced its most atrocious consequences in the Holocaust, an event that haunts Barnes’s narrative, and is addressed and most directly discussed in the section of the chapter ‘Three Simple Stories’ dealing with the tragic voyage of the St Louis, the cruise ship that left Hamburg in May 1939 with 937 Jewish refugees on a desperate search for asylum.