The Lonely Voice
The Lonely Voice (1962) is a study of the short story form, written by Frank O'Connor.
Description
Within the study, O'Connor expounds on some of his own major theories of the short story as well as discusses the work of many influential short story writers. Each chapter focuses on a different author:
- Ivan Turgenev
- Guy de Maupassant
- Anton Chekhov
- Rudyard Kipling
- James Joyce
- Katherine Mansfield
- D. H. Lawrence
- Ernest Hemingway
- A. E. Coppard
- Isaac Babel
- Mary Lavin
Reception
One of the work's major contributions is that of "the submerged population group" - a term that O'Connor uses to characterise those individuals who, for whatever reasons, are left on the fringes of society.[1] The term was taken up again in the twenty-first century by Amit Chaudhuri to usefully characterise modernist writing in the Indian subcontinent.[2]
The book is seen by many critics as the first lengthy examination of the short story form, and it has been heralded by many writers as an influential work.[3]
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Works by Frank O'Connor
collections
- Guests of the Nation
- Bones of Contention
- Crab Apple Jelly
- The Common Chord
- Traveller's Samples
- The Stories of Frank O'Connor
- More Stories by Frank O'Connor
- Domestic Relations
- A Set of Variations
- The Cornet Player Who Betrayed Ireland
- The Collected Stories
- The Collar
- A Frank O'Connor Reader
- The Saint and Mary Kate
- Dutch Interior
- An Only Child
- My Father's Son
- The Wild Bird's Nest
- Lament for Art O'Leary
- The Midnight Court
- Kings, Lords, and Commons
- The Little Monasteries
- The Big Fellow
- Irish Miles
- Leinster, Munster and Connaught
- The Road to Stratford
- Shakespeare's Progress
- The Mirror in the Roadway
- The Lonely Voice
- The Backward Look
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