Kyriakos
09-11-2010, 04:17 AM
I am looking for short (up to 40 pages) stories which rely heavily on psychological portrayals of characters, mostly the narrator (since i like reading stories in the first person narrative). Something that goes below the surface and tries to examine the deeper levels of the soul, why exactly one acted as he acted, in what mental corridor was he found, and towards what was he walking when he did or thought that which he did?
I write in similar fashion, and was wondering if i can find some fellow traveller in this kind of literature :)
The closest i have found is really not very close, but as for psychology i am fond of writers like De Maupassant and Poe. For symbolism there is Kafka, although i am not looking at his kind of complete symbolism, but a symbolism that gets revealed inside the story for what it was (it seems to me that Kafka just wrote vast allegories, without ever meaning to explain what they meant).
So, any suggestions? :)
I write in similar fashion, and was wondering if i can find some fellow traveller in this kind of literature :)
The closest i have found is really not very close, but as for psychology i am fond of writers like De Maupassant and Poe. For symbolism there is Kafka, although i am not looking at his kind of complete symbolism, but a symbolism that gets revealed inside the story for what it was (it seems to me that Kafka just wrote vast allegories, without ever meaning to explain what they meant).
So, any suggestions? :)