Through the Tunnel | Free Stories: The Shorter Fiction of Doris Lessing
Though the following essay does not discuss "Through the Tunnel" explicitly, Hanson does discuss Lessing's approach to short fiction.
Lessing's short fiction falls into the general category of the "free story," a term coined by Elizabeth Bowen to describe the kind of fiction that she and writers such as V. S. Pritchett were writing in the years immediately following the modernist period. The free story has been the dominant type of short story or fiction produced in this country over the last fifty years and has been much favoured by novelists who have also been attracted to the short form. The freedom of the free story consists primarily in its potential for plotlessness, or narrative inconclusiveness. Elizabeth Bowen...
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