Anne on Nostr: I’ve been reading Short Fiction, An Anthology Second Edition (2015) and I’m ...
I’ve been reading Short Fiction, An Anthology Second Edition (2015) and I’m noticing that many of the short stories written in mid to late 1800’s are nothing but overly descriptive inciting incidents. Then they just sort of end. It’s like “this guy was walking down the street and someone shot him” and then the ending is a paragraph about how his wife visits his grave every Sunday. The Joseph Conrad one (An Outpost of Progress) has a story arc but also a helluva lot of racism. Hoping for better things when I get into the 1900s. Anyway, lots of big names.
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