Sinner Sea O Faolain summary
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It is an interesting cultural-literary puzzle that the short story has always been a particularly irresistible form for Irish writers, even as it has never been a particularly successful form for their cultural cousins, the British. George Moore, James Joyce, Frank O'Connor, and Sean O'Faolain are only a few whose names have become identified with what has often been called a minor art form. O'Connor and O'Faolain, who grew up together, as it were, within the so-called Irish Literary Revival, have made similar suggestions about the origin of the Irish preference for the short story. In his well known study of the form, The Lonely Voice (1963), O'Connor has said that whereas the novel demands a classical concept of a civilized society, the short story is remote from a sense of community and is therefore romantic, individualistic, and lonely. O'Faolain has similarly suggested that the more firmly organized and established in tradition a country is, the less room there is in its literature for the short story