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"Too many things," a creative writing instructor tells the narrator of "Differently." "Too many things going on at the same time; also too many people. Think, he told her. What is the important thing? What do you want us to pay attention to? Think." What does Alice Munro want us to pay attention to in her Selected Stories? Everything, really, and so her narratives loop back on themselves, jump decades backward and forward in time, introduce characters who later drop out of the action, and generally break every rule in the short-story-writing book. In "Carried Away," for instance, a dead character makes a sudden, inexplicable appearance in what is otherwise the thoroughly naturalistic account of a librarian's disappointment with love. "The Albanian Virgin" is two stories in one: the first--the fanciful tale of Ghegs kidnapping a young Canadian woman--is told within the second, about a bookstore owner who has lost her own bearings after a divorce. There are stories that begin with their endings, and several more that end with beginnings; others are told from three or four different angles, each with varying degrees of reliability. Taken together, they form an intricate web of relationships and connections, falsehood and anecdote, a kind of fictional palimpsest laid over the faint traces of plot.
And yet Munro trusts her readers; she believes that we will pay attention to all these things and more. She aims to create the illusion that everything in her fiction has been left in, and it is this very capaciousness that sets her work apart, making possible the keen psychological insight of her stories about marriage as well as the cool violence of "Vandals" or "Fits." Hers is an unusual sort of realism, technically innovative and amenable--especially in the later work--to loose ends. (It also possesses a quick, flinty wit: "This was the first time I understood how God could become a real opponent, not just some kind of nuisance or large decoration," says the narrator of "The Progress of Love.") To call Munro the Canadian Chekhov is by now a commonplace--and yet she may have done more for the short fiction form than any writer since. These are stories that will be read, savored, and admired hundreds of years from now. --Mary Park -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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There's nothing quite like a retrospective collection of short stories by a virtuoso of the form: neither novels nor poetry nor memoirs present readers with such richness, such surprise, such twists of fate and quirks of personality. With this gathering of the best of nearly three decades of work, Munro's place in the constellation of short story masters, which includes such kindred spirits as Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O'Connor, and William Maxwell, is affirmed and celebrated. Like her peers, Munro has established a distinctive territory: the country and small towns that hug the shores of Lake Huron. Munro has much bemused and tender affection for this rural, weathered realm, and she populates it with a host of unique and memorable characters, from the determinedly good-natured old piano teacher in the haunting "Dance of the Happy Shades," to Rose, the bold heroine of a trio of exceptionally frank stories, including the fresh and riveting "Wild Swans." In story after story, each so different in content and mood from the next, Munro achieves a consistent and remarkable ease of syntax, delicacy of psychology, and resonance of visual imagery. There is much to savor and treasure here. Donna Seaman
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I was thoroughly entranced and mesmerized by these stories. Ms. Munro accomplishes
what has to be the most beautiful and difficult task in
fiction--illuminating the darkest corners of human nature.
I don't mean dark as necessarily evil, but dark as in the
sides of oneself no one talks about, or even knows is there.
"Fits" is a perfect example of this.
I read the stories out of order, which produced an interesting
effect. They do have a chronology. The opening pieces
are very different from the ones at the end.
what has to be the most beautiful and difficult task in
fiction--illuminating the darkest corners of human nature.
I don't mean dark as necessarily evil, but dark as in the
sides of oneself no one talks about, or even knows is there.
"Fits" is a perfect example of this.
I read the stories out of order, which produced an interesting
effect. They do have a chronology. The opening pieces
are very different from the ones at the end.
Format:Taschenbuch
Alice Munro's collection of short stories embodies over 25 of her finest works. Within the text, she deals with issues of family, friends, betrayal, and the creation of art--sometimes all at once. Her writing is powerful, and she controls it with unimaginable skill. A must-read for anyone truly interested in the art of fiction.
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
The collection never settles into a single genre of short story. Ms. Munro is a master of them all. The collection mixes and matches so the reader remains vulnerable. Just when you begin to feel that it is getting repetitive, you are blind-sided. I never settled into this large volume, but was unable to leave it.
Life is stranger than fiction, and these tales ride perilously close to being life, but never lose their credibility. There is often the reaction of, "That is one strange story, but yes, I guess it could have happened. Weird but real."
She lacks Toni Morrison's turn of phrase, but is peerles for the ease with which she twists and turns the plots and sub-plots.
An outstanding read.
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A superb collection
Munro is one of the greatest writers of short stories of our time--perhaps of all time. There's not a dud in the collection. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. März 1997 veröffentlicht
A coming of age in short story form.
As a woman, I was caught up in her storys as some seemed to speak to me of my own life experiences. She left me wishing there was more yet to cover.... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 7. Februar 1997 veröffentlicht
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