one great short story writer, they say, who has complex plots it seems

[Mark Kohut]

When one---I---think more clearly of complexly plotted short story
writers, and esp for UNDER THE ROSE day, I see why TRP's comparison
with Le Carre is less weird than my stupidity.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 6:11 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Alice Munro came to mind as well.
>
> 2016-02-26 11:51 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>
>> One restriction she had little time for, however, was sticking to a
>> single point of view. Almost all her stories are written in the third
>> person, and almost all of them access the thoughts of multiple characters.
>> Sometimes she flicks briefly into the thoughts of an incidental character
>> (in The Letter Writers it is a nosy neighbour who intrudes on Emily’s
>> lunch), while elsewhere she cycles more methodically through a story’s
>> cast, building a scene from multiple perspectives. Oasis of Gaiety (1951),
>> about a boozy afternoon party, is a bravura example.
>>
>>
>
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