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PACHECO, Carlos. Ednodio Quintero: from the microshort story to the miniature novel . Letras [online]. 2009, vol.51, n.78, pp.183-217. ISSN 0459-1283.

The work of Ednodio Quintero displays virtually the complete range of discursive forms in narrative fiction. In this article we study its brief forms: the microshort story, the minishort story, the brief and the extended short story. We postpone more extended works, as the short novel and the novel, for future research. In turn, our approach is panoramic, chronological and comparative. With acknowledged proposals of the theory of the short story as a starting point, we consider the diverse balances between extension and intensity achieved in various narrative modalities of Quinterian brief fiction. We take advantage of the fact that the author has introduced some changes in order to compress, but mostly to expand some of his creations, and has published the new versions. This article also analyzes the way in which a narrative Andean rural space is built and then relativized. Such space becomes circumstantial to its protagonists, and manifests itself through a reiterated geographic and/or imaginary return to the childhood home region.

Palabras clave : Ednodio Quintero (1947); theory of the short story; Venezuelan short store.

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