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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

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Topic - Hey Patrick! Mauspassant.... - AudioHead 10:18:23 01/01/02 (2)

Re: Hey Patrick! Mauspassant.... - Patrick UITZ 13:55:36 01/01/02 (1)

Thanks , We Are On The Same Wave- Length Here! <Nt> - AudioHead 10:18:18 01/03/02 (0)

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