Notions of wholeness
June 10, 2013
Consider these two reviews, which implicate notions of "wholeness," for our discussion tomorrow:
"Alice Munro, one of the foremost short-story writers of her generation, creates tales that have the scope and amplitude of novels: whole lives are condensed into a handful of pages . . . ."
"Each of the 14 stories in this collection is like a novel-in-miniature, concerned primarily with the telling of the tale rather than rhetorical flourishes."