Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Aaron Roy Weintraub
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Mothers, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Cancer, Pain, Women, Adoption or adopted children
It is hard to understand what Harold Brodkey meant by titling this collection Stories in an Almost Classical Mode. They certainly do not resemble the stories of O. Henry, Guy de Maupassant, or Anton Chekhov. In 1957, Brodkey published a collection of short stories under the title First Love and Other Sorrows which shows the strong influence of the finely polished stories of James Joyce in Dubliners (1914), a work which is undoubtedly a modern classic; however, the Joycean element in Brodkey's writing has been diluted over the years, except for a propensity to play...
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