Luminous bridges..

This selected collection of international short stories includes eleven stories by the most prominent writers of this creative genre in the world. These names are juxtaposed in one book to present to the reader the masterpieces of the short story since the inception of this art. The story "A Famous Lady" by the English writer Helen Simpson is present, along with ten male writers, making her the only writer among the books of this collection, standing side by side with the Italian Luigi Pirandello, the French writers J. de Maupassant and André Mauroy, the Austrian Stefan Zweig, and the Americans Edgar Allen Poe and Mark Twain, her English compatriots Henry Harland and Erskine Caldwell, the Irishman James Joyce, and the Indian writer Suraya Rao.
The magic of the short story lies in its permanence and continuity over time. This art was able to present a deep and complex existential position within a limited narrative space through which the author presents his vision of life and his interaction with the most important thorny human issues through the characters of his carefully chosen heroes, making what they say and what they do influential over generations, and able to move from time to time. last.