Villa Gillet short story conference, Lyon, France
Le choix des histoires courtes
The short story, an already popular and widespread literary genre in anglophone countries, is becomingly increasingly in vogue among French writers. Why?
On 28 November 2006, authors Frédéric Boyer, Geneviève Brisac, Kirsty Gunn and David Means joined Martine Silber, a journalist on Le Monde, and Gavin Wallace, journalist, literary critic and book service manager for Scottish Arts Council, to discuss the short story.
Here we reproduce, with kind permission, what they had to say:
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The short story form is better suited to the demands of modern life than the novel.
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