Off the top of my head, novellas? I guess you mean 100 pages or less? without
scanning my bookshelves…
scanning my bookshelves…
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Kreutzer Sonata, by Leo Tolstoy
The Lover, by Marguerite Duras
The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector
Notes from Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Agape Agape, by William Gaddis
That’s what comes to mind!
Micheline Aharonian Marcom is the author of Three Apples Fell from Heaven and The Daydreaming Boy, which won the 2005/ USA Award in fiction and was named a Best Book by the L.A. Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. The third book in the trilogy, Draining the Sea and The Mirror in the Well were published in 2008. Marcom received a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2004 and a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2006. michelinemarcom.com.