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I'd noticed you'd compared director John Ford with Maupassant, who
as we know, was the greatest short-story writer, along with Chekhov,
of the late 19th Century.
Interestingly, neither writer performed as well when writing the novel, or even the recit, due to the intrinsic differences between
the short-story and the novel. (The short-story is closer to the
lyric, while the novel is more likely to rub shoulders with the essay
or philosophical treatise.)
The same could be said of Boccaccio, centuries earlier, when compared
to Dante. We get a more varied picture of Italian life at that time
via Boccaccio, which also could be said of Maupassant vis-a-vis Flaubert and Chekhov vis-a-vis Dostoevsky, in their respective cultures and time-period.
I prefer the short-story over the novel in general, and as an amateur
poet and short-story writer, I fall into the category of Maupassant,
Chekov, as like them, my personality, inspiration and creativity
function best via the shorter literary forms.
Of course, this is not to ignore or denigrate the novel's power, which
provides a deeper, more complex, more dialectical, polyhedric and
metaphysical representation of reality than the short story.
Translated to film, I prefer the shorter ones and find it difficult
to focus on long ones, especially epics nowadays. Even shorter films
with an extremely slow pace bore me to distraction.
But that's just me. - AH
Follow Ups:
I would have said the same a few weeks ago,to tell the true,as I had finished to re-re-read (over the time) the complete short storys from S.Maugham,I then started to read his novels,and look..there where some stories twice...the late ( Novels )had more room to breath,the author could go in more...But I must add that his output is more a smaller one ..than Tolstoi...
The novel I prefer are the one that are about the same construction as short stories...
Guy De Maupassant is the work I most like from every thing I ever read,his prosa is so pure ( In French) his kindness,his understanding of the human condition so brillant... his mentor wrote the best novel I ever put under my eyes,with Madame Bovary,a portait,more living than life itself,when you have this treasure in you hand ..you do not have to go outside to the called " real world"
John Fordīs Stagecoach took inspiration in Guy `s "mademoisell Fifi "and maybe "La maison Tellier " his genius was to be able to transport in another vehicule.in a minor one ( so called) genre : the western..La nouvelle garde (Truffaud,Godard and the rest did well understand it.
Decameron is another love of mine short, full of life and pleasantly erotic..
The exeption always do confirm the rule, all in all ,I agree to your view,as my personnal temperament dictate me the same feling & understanding !
The films are the views from some one else, the books are far more complex in the reflexion that they generated...in..one self.Patrick.
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