false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170923287m/78219.jpg 78219 6 A reader doesn't want to love every story in an anthology. A collection of short fiction by various authors should be just that: various. We want all the stories to be admirable, but not necessarily lovable. This is how anthologies do their job, which is to teach us to love new forms of fiction. And this is how Daniel Halpern, editor of <I>The Art of the Story</I>, does his job. Halpern previously brought us the successful and far-reaching collection <I>The Art of the Tale</I>. Now he has taken upon himself the task of creating an international sampling of the contemporary short story. Seventy-eight writers from 35 countries--including Banana Yoshimoto, Junot Díaz, Peter Hoeg, Julian Barnes, T.C. Boyle, Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, Edwidge Danticat, and Tatyana Tolstaya--demonstrate that the story still brims with unrest and disharmony and, well, variousness. The classical form, the story that implies the world in a truncated scene or two, that implies a life in a single moment, is amply represented in this collection by writers like Ann Beattie ("In Amalfi") and Raymond Carver ("Are These Actual Miles?"). But the new story ranges farther than the personal, making inroads into the parodic, the fantastic, the speculative. As Halpern writes in the preface, "There seems to be a more investigative nature to the fiction of these stories written so close to the end of this century, a tendency, especially among writers from emerging nations, to use the story as a means of orientation, to restate for themselves their position--politically, socially, and artistically--as if for these writers there is radically less separation between reality and the imagination." Certainly this is an apt description of the fiction of Nigeria's Booker Prize winner Ben Okri ("In the Shadow of War") and of American newcomer Nathan Englander, whose "The Twenty-Seventh Man" describes the slaughter of Yiddish writers and contains the unforgettable dictate, "Never outlive your language." <I>--Claire Dederer</I> 75534 1987 The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories total:97|5:31|4:39|3:21|2:4|1:2| 97 384 197 19 283849 0140079491 9780140079494 35 8 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173405135m/283849.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/283849.The_Art_of_the_Tale_An_International_Anthology_of_Short_Stories_1945_1985 5 0 false Tue Dec 02 06:46:16 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 06:49:14 -0800 2008
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