THE ROMANIAN SHORT STORY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY
THE ROMANIAN SHORT STORY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: Often neglected by criticism or treated as an intermediary step in the evolution toward the novel, the brief history of the Romanian short story, born at the beginning of the 21st Century, at once with the ascent of the Internet and the social networks, yet almost inert by the year 2013, when the short story writer, Alice Munro, won the Nobel prize in Literature, is nonetheless an intriguing one. Concise, minimalist, placed in both traditional (rural) and corporate (urban) areas, defined by themes such as impossibility of inter personal communication, loneliness, childhood, death, sexual desire, erotic initiation, life during the communist regime, escape, compassion, job disillusionment, aging and the passage of time, the short prose of the 2000s speaks of a new literary approach.

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