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n Frank O’ Connor’s classic study of the short story, The Lonely Voice, he says that one of the things which characterises the short story (and for him differentiates it from the novel) is ‘an intense awareness of human loneliness’ and that:
it might be truer to say that while we often read a familiar novel again for companionship, we approach the short story in a very different mood. It is more akin to the mood of Pascal’s saying: Le silence éternal de ce espaces infinis m’effraie [the eternal silence of those infinite spaces terrifies me.]
