The Albanian Virgin | Literary Precedents
"The Albanian Virgin" shares a sensibility with the works of such short story writers as Elizabeth Bowen (especially her "Mysterious Kor" and "The Happy Autumn Fields") and Flannery O'Connor, writers whose meticulously crafted fiction reveals the presence of the magical amidst female lives defined by layers of conflict (international, civil, domestic, psychological) and shaped to varying degrees by a yearning for an illusive sense of romantic wholeness. Indeed, Eudora Welty's oftcited description of Bowen's short fiction could apply readily to many of Munro's stories: She has an awareness...
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