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Lives in miniature.(On Fiction)(The Lemon Table)(Book Review)
From: The New Leader
Date: 20040501
Author:Allen, Brooke
DESPITE the feints and stratagems of the Modern and Postmodern movements, the short story form perfected more than a century ago by Guy de Maupassant and Anton Chekhov has not substantially changed. Countless young and not-so-young Turks, of course, still try to stretch the limits of the genre--David Foster Wallace's just-published Oblivion is a case in point--but they seldom create really satisfactory work; the masters, from James Joyce to John Updike, have essentially adhered to the traditional structure. Three new collections demonstrate its continued vitality.
The early ...
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