January 1, 1969
Japan
From the Japanese. A student newspaper once asked me for my views on the potentialities of the short story. I replied that although I gave thought to the actual short […]
January 1, 1969
Italy
From the Italian. The work of G. B. Passano, I novellieri italiani in prosa, published in the second half of the nineteenth century, is a bibliographical record of Italian short-story […]
January 1, 1969
United States
Anything that I have to say about short stories has to be personal, at least in part. Quite impossible for me to be “objective.” Possible, though pointless it seems to […]
January 1, 1969
South Africa
I can never say exactly why I began writing short stories twenty years ago; why, for instance, I did not try the novel first. Perhaps one’s natural bent has something […]
January 1, 1969
Australia
There must have been a heyday, sometime between the first settlement of Australia and the second World War, during which the short story flourished here. This period is harked back […]
January 1, 1969
England
The short story, as we know it today, is a comparatively modern literary form. The writing and telling of stories is another matter, going back into antiquity—to legends and fables […]
January 1, 1969
India
Who says the short story is dead? In India it has only recently had its rebirth, and literary pundits who make horoscopes have forecast a long and prosperous life for […]
January 1, 1969
Norway
From the Norwegian. I have always seen the short story as an oval in form—the form of a drop. Perhaps because, like a drop, it can absorb and in an […]
January 1, 1969
Spain
From the Spanish. Since I first began to write, hardly in my girlhood, I have considered the short story one of the aptest means available to a narrator. The tale […]