«No other way I can deal with fiction»

In un’intervista che compare alla fine della raccolta The Love of a Good Woman, Alice Munro, a proposito delle potenzialità creative della forma breve rispetto alla long prose, afferma:

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form, I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction. What do I want to do? I want to tell a story, in the old-fashioned way – what happens to somebody – but I want that “what happens” to be delivered with quite a bit of interruption, turnarounds, and strangeness. I want the reader to feel something is astonishing – not the “what happens” but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.