“The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.” ArtStoriesLightFormLiteratureIndividualDealsShort StoryCompelledInner Light Author:Frank O'Connor
“Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society.... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel--an intense awareness of human loneliness.” HumansStoriesResultsNovelAwarenessLonelinessFiguresIntenseWanderCharacteristicsShort StoryFringe Author:Frank O'Connor
