Ballardian

From the Guardian: Wednesday August 24, 2005

"Keep it brief’: A new £15,000 prize for short stories suggests Britain is finally getting over its obsession with the novel. And not before time, says Aida Edemariam

… [William] Boyd identified seven types of short story, beginning with the "event-plot story", one of its earliest forms, in which "the skeleton of plot is all important, the narrative is shaped, classically, to have a beginning, middle and end". But there are six others: the self-explanatory "Chekhovian story"; the "modernist story" - Hemingway, for example; the "cryptic/ludic story - Nabokov and Borges; the "mini-novel story" - Chekhov again; the "poetic/mythic" - Dylan Thomas, DH Lawrence, JG Ballard, Ted Hughes and Frank O’Hara; the biographical - Borges again and Boyd himself.
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