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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Where The Origin of Short Stories (Short Story)?

Prologue

Short story is one of literature that has become an important part of the current consumption of the reader. Only a few newspapers and magazines in the world that does not contain the short story as one of the material contents. But for ordinary people who do not wrestle with the research literature reveals a very difficult background meyusur and the birth, development and personalities of the world of short stories. This thread at least a pointer in that direction, though in phase masaih and simple strata.

DEFINITIONS

Short story or short story is often abbreviated as a form of fictional narrative prose. Short stories tend to be solid and straight to the goal than works of fiction that is longer, like a novel. Because in short, short stories rely on a successful literary techniques such as character, plot, theme, language and insights more broadly than the longer fiction.

                       Homer

HISTORY OF SHORT STORIES

When the real short story written and known by the reading public? According to records, the short story has been around for thousands of years ago was born in Egypt precisely 3200 BC, grew up in the Middle East, continues to spread to Greece and Rome and grow and grow in Europe. Short story begins in the oral storytelling tradition that produces well-known stories such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The stories are delivered in a rhythmic form of poetry, the rhythm that serves as a tool to help people to remember the story. The other ancient form of short story is a fable, sage, myth, and legend.

Later developed into an anecdote, popular in the Roman Empire. Anecdotes functioned as a parable, a brief realistic narration that embodies a message or purpose. Many of the surviving Roman anecdotes were collected in the Gesta Romanorum later in the 13th century or 14th. Anecdotes remained popular in Europe until the 18th century, when letters containing fictional anecdotes of Sir Roger de Coverley were published.

William Shakespeare's famous poet from England to take the ingredients of drama and his poetry from the later folklore member influence the writers of short ceita. It is said that Shakespeare's dramas & influenced by the story of Pyramus Thisbe, which is a short story of Ancient Greece. While the forms of Greek short stories influenced by the stories of ancient Egypt, which has existed in the country around 3500-3200 BC. Spread to Europe and developed during the early years BC until medieval times where Boccacio (1313-1375) introduced the essay in the book Decameron, Gesta Romanorum and Gold Legend. But the real story form as a literary genre plotted in the plot that meet the rules of a new aesthetic essay appeared in the nineteenth century in Western Europe, Russia and America.
MODERN SHORT STORY
Two brothers, Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) is beginner modern short story by lifting the folk tales and turn it into a story form that lived back then. They are very popular with modern tales, later followed by ETA Hoffmann (1776-1812) who wrote short stories about ghosts and creatures of modern imitation. Hoffmann as the father of Gothic story, namely scare stories about the weird and wonderful creatures from the spirit world, spiritual world.
Subsequently adopted by several authors the United States such as Washington Irving (1783-1859) who worked on the themes of Grimm and Hoffmann. American author who created a new form of literary short stories and made the short story as an independent and powerful literary genre is Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). He presents a strong gothic stories and pioneering forms of whodunit whodunits so the title of Mr. World. Besides Poe, appear simultaneously ualah Nathanael Hawthorne (1804-1864) who wrote the theme of humanity. The short story is folosofis rely on the strength of the story rather than the surprise ending theme.

In the same period in France appears the authors as Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) and Prosper Merimae (1803-1870) which shows a new form of literary short story with a surprise late (surprise ending) and emphasizes the severity of the story, the twists and likunya and all events that appear in the story. The French author shows real life than it smells of the supernatural. They just unload real life. Guy de Maupassant strong character and efforts to present the entertainment value to make the story short appreciated until now.
In Russia emerged Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) a member of influence to the literature that came later such as Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), IS Turgenew (1818-1883), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) and Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). If Pushkin world presents many of the military in the war in the story, then Gogol presents Kosak community life, where it originated. Turgenew depicts world of Russia in the nineteenth century with the physical and spiritual panorama of the typical Dostoyevsky, while many of the world working on the psychiatric aspects of social, economic and political which is based on a traumatic personal experience.

HISTORY OF THE SHORT STORY IN INDONESIA

M. Kasim and Soeman Hs. the first to write long stories and then gave birth to the genre of humorous short stories in literary Indonesia. In 1936 the literary works of literary short stories coloring Indonesia through the work of M. Eunuch published titled Friends Sitting Hall Book. Followed by Soeman Hs with Comrade wrestling, published in 1938. Similarly, the authors (including some that can be classified as a short story long, long). M. Kasim and Suman Hs. Does not produce short stories of literary quality, but they are still regarded as the Father of Short Stories Indonesia.

FIGURE-FIGURE WORLD SHORT STORY

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland is Britain's most famous author in the nineteenth century opened with tales of romantic and narrative poem's adaptation of the history. Two of his most popular and read all over the world are Waverly (1814) and Ivanhoe (1820).

Washington Irvin (1783 - 1859)


Washington Irving is a writer, pengesai, biographer and historian of the United States in the 19th century. He is known for his short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and some Spanish historians of 15th-century figure who speaks like Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra.

Sereyevuch Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)


Pushkin is Russia's great 19th century poet who brings romantic flow. Earlier in Russia grew and flourished classical flow. First known as a poet Pushkin who wrote narrative poems are long, and then he writes the lyrics are so beautiful short, before moving on to writing poetic drama and short stories.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Edgar Allan Poe was a poet, short story writer, editor, critic, and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Known for his works of his Macabre, Poe was one of the early practitioners of the short story writing in America and the pioneering work of detective fiction and crime. He also received recognition for his contribution to the genre of science fiction. Poe died at the age of 40 years for reasons that are less clear, particularly suspected because of alcohol, drugs, cholera, rabies, and other things.

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

Guy de Maupassant was a popular French writer of the 19th century and is considered as one of the originator of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant story recognizable style of economy and efficiency, dénouement. Many background story of the Franco-Prussian War in the 1870s and some of them tell the atrocities of war and innocent people are trapped in the conflict, then the atmosphere changed. He also wrote six short novels.

Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)


Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a great Russian writer famous mainly because of short stories and drama. Many of these short stories are considered as the apotheosis of the form while his plays, although only four are considered large only - have a great impact in the literature and drama performances.

FAMOUS SHORT STORIES

The overcoat (1842)
Author: Nikolai Gogol

The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Author: Edgar Allan Poe

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)
Author: Ambrose Bierce

The Story of an Hour (1894)
Author: Kate Chopin

Monkey Paw (1902)
Author: W. W. Jacobs

In der Strafkolonie (1919)
Author: Franz Kafka

The Most Dangerous Game (1924)
Author: Richard Connell

A Rose for Emily (1931)
Author: William Faulkner

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936)
Author: Ernest Hemingway

Yours Truly, Jack the Rippe (1943)
Author: Robert Bloch




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