Title
How Few Words Can the Shortest Story Have?
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Compares Hemingway’s apocryphal short story of only six words (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn”) to Frederic Brown’s two sentence story entitled “Knock,” concluding that Hemingway’s story creates greater emotional impact because there is no possibility of consolation or relief.
Published in
Philosophy & Literature
Volume
32
Issue
1
Date
2008
Pages
119-129
COinS
Citation
Gilead, Amihud. “How Few Words Can the Shortest Story Have?” Philosophy & Literature 32, vol. 1 (April 2008): 119-29.