January 1, 1970
South Africa
There is a Zulu folk story of the prodigious uHlakanyana who, impatient to be born, hammered with his fists on the inside of his mother’s stomach shouting “Let me out!” […]
January 1, 1970
United States
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are stories. And, of course, Boccaccio’s Decameron is a book of short stories. What is written comes out of what was spoken. The epic, the song, the […]
January 1, 1970
England
Nobody writes sonnets now; or, if they do, nobody reads them. Tomorrow, nobody will write short stories. Not that I have ever favored the view that the short story is […]
January 1, 1970
New Zealand
Who wants short stories? Who needs them? I ask as a Gissing man. That is, I edge into this symposium less as a New Zealander than as a writer who […]
January 1, 1970
England
The history of the short story, both past and present, is beset with odd myths, some of them plain silly, and a considerable number of contradictions, some of them difficult […]
January 1, 1970
Italy
From the Italian. One would like to think that the short story will never die in Italy, since it appears to be a form of expression particularly suited to the […]