MASTERS OF SHORT STORY
Each culture has its masters of the short history. But
some of them have excelled to the others by their talent or other factors like
the editorial industry or the politic.
In the North American tradition, the names Edgar Allan
Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harold Irving, Ambroise Bierce, Herman Melville and
Mark Twain stand out for their brilliance.
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| Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) |
In the European tradition the names of Charles
Dickens, Sir. Walter Scott, H.G.
Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Guy de
Maupassant, Alexander Pushkin and Anton Chekhov are one of the most important
from a long list.
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| Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
In the oriental tradition Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is one of the few names that have been considered traditionally. He is called the father of the Japanese short story.
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| Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) |
The latin American tradition is like the European a
list of many names, among them: Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Augusto
Monterroso, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo or Horacio Quiroga.
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| Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) |
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