The Story of the Stone
James Kelman
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
James Kelman has made use of the short form all of his writing life, calling on the different traditions where such stories are central within the culture, beginning and ending in freedom, the freedom to create.
This collection of nearly a hundred pieces of very short fiction spans five decades and reveals James Kelman’s mastery of the form. As ever, Kelman insists on his characters telling their stories in their own voices, whether in working-class Glaswegian dialect or the dull menace of bureaucratic babble. Everyday tragedy and bleak humor color these marvels of narrative efficiency, yet at their core they are tender and full of human truth.
Kundenbewertungen
working class narrators, minimalism, stream of consciousness experimentation, first-person internal monologues, micro fiction, flash fiction, microfiction, one page stories, short short stories