Brief Encounters
Writer William Boyd proposes a new way to classify short stories:
Like a multivitamin pill, a good short story can provide a compressed blast of discerning, intellectual pleasure, one no less intense than that delivered by a novel, despite the shorter duration of its consumption. To read a short story like Joyce’s “The Dead”, Chekhov’s “In the Ravine” or Hemingway’s “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”, is to be confronted by a fully achieved, complex work of art, either profound or disturbing or darkly comic or moving. The fact that it takes 15 minutes to read is neither here nor there: the potency is manifest and emphatic.
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