TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VERY SHORT STORY: A STUDY IN SELECTED MODELS
At every intellectual developmental stage, literary genres appear that find suitable soil for growth, in which they cultivate their path and entrust them with their characteristics and characteristics, in order to seep into the cosmic space quietly and smoothly. They undermine it, limit it, and diminish its status and importance. Like everything new, he must fight his war to impose his literary self, which the writer generated from the womb of reality. Perhaps the nature of this contemporary materialistic time that we live in, and the rapid change taking place in it, affected many aspects of our lives; He made technology invade every home in the world, and turned cities and villages on earth into a small spot where nothing is hidden, thanks to progress and development in means of communication and transportation. What afflicted our material life affected our literary and cultural life, so we witnessed the emergence of new literary genres in their techniques, so we saw the novel, the play, then the article, the thought, the biography, the short story, and finally the very short story. And if it is logical to establish a relationship between the novel and the short story, then it is also logical to establish a relationship between the short story and the very short story. However, the distinction between these races is not valid only by looking at the size criterion only; The circumstances of the emergence of each race differ greatly from other races as well.
Keywords: The Very Short Story, Technical Characteristics