50 Great Short Stories的书评 (3)

Foster的The Other Side Of The Hedge是较为喜欢的一篇，满满的象征主义。网上未经授权转来的，大家看看就好。 The story is narrated by a man who is exhausted of a compulsory journey on the road that is "monotonous, dusty, with brown cracking hedges on either side...  (展开)

“THE SAINT by V. S. Pritchett, 1966 With comic seriousness "The Saint," the title story of V. S. Pritchett's 1966 collection, recounts an adolescent boy's progress from an illusory disregard for catastrophe to a realization of humanity's mortal fate. In t...  (展开)

What makes a gteat short story? The sudden unforgettable revelation of character; the vision of a world through another's eyes; the glimpse of truth; the capture of a moment in time. （2020.01.18）p383-385 A Haunted house——By Virginia Woolf I don't certa...  (展开)