Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Novel or Short Story... Or New Form?
In a fragmented world, the distinction between novels and short stories is becoming blurred. Here, Philip Hensher asks why.
What is this book? Is it a novel? Is it a collection of stories with recurrent characters? Well, it might just be an example of a new literary genre. Genres don't come into existence every day, but in the past few years a good number of writers have started exploring the previously blank territory that lies between the collection of short stories and the novel proper. It starts to look like a new form altogether.
posted by The Daily Pick at 1:49 AM