The Matisse Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Antonia Susan Drabble
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Mythology or myths, Suicide, Art or artists, Feminism, Adultery, Sexual harassment, Depression, mental, Painting or painters, Learning or scholarship, Career women, Hairdressing or hairdressers
The short story, like all art forms, is a battleground of competing tendencies. Generally, the story stands in splendid isolation, autonomous. Authors sometimes describe such stories as “chips from the workbench”—ideas too small for full-length treatment, or left over from a longer work, or expressive of an idea, theme, or technique the author cannot work out in any other way. Yet pulling against these centrifugal forces of isolation are the centripetal ones of connection and sequence. The short-story sequence is almost a subgenre, and clever unifying devices linking otherwise...
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