She is an intuitive writer, who is less likely to be concerned with problems of form than with clarity and veracity. Most critics, however, treat it as short fiction.Īlice Munro has been compared to Ernest Hemingway in the realism, economy, and lucidity of her style, to John Updike in her insights into the intricacies of social and sexual relationships, to Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty in her ability to create characters of eccentric individualism, and to Marcel Proust in the completeness and verisimilitude with which she evokes the past. On the other hand, some reviewers, including author John Gardner, have suggested that the stories in her collection published in the United States as The Beggar Maid are so intricately related that that book might be viewed as a novel. She has published one book that is generally classified as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women (1971), but she herself prefers to view it as a group of linked stories. However, the line between long and short fiction is sometimes blurred in her writings. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on OctoĪlice Munro (born 10 July 1931) is first and foremost a writer of short fiction.
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