I assume what you are asking is why write short stories when you could write a novel. I am mainly a novelist, true, and I think I am probably best at writing novels. But it's important to me to have, as a refuge, a form where I can try things, where I can experiment liberally, and where I am not always locked into the obligation to narrate or tell a story. A lot of DEMONOLOGY is about writing with the language first, instead of the story, or even the characters. That attention to style first invigorates me and allows me to return to novel writing refreshed. In the United States, we have a long tradition of short story writing, arguably a tradition more vigorous than its counterpart in Europe, and since I don't favor the kind of specialization in writing that is so popular these days (where poets only write poems and short story writers only write short stories), it is good for me to try new ways of using writing. Thus: short stories. I am also, however, a very keen student of the essay (and of its master and progenitor Michel de Montaigne).
Quel lien entretenez-vous avec le genre de la nouvelle ?
Et puisque je ne suis pas très porté sur cette sorte de ‘spécialisation’ littéraire qui est pourtant si courante de nos jours (à savoir que les poètes écrivent seulement des poèmes et les auteurs de nouvelles n’écrivent que des nouvelles), il est bon pour moi d’essayer de nouvelles façons d’écrire. D’où ma tentative d’écrire des nouvelles. Je m’intéresse aussi cependant à l’essai (et au père de l’essai : Michel de Montaigne)
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