Story telling A Bridge between People and Their Culture
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"What's your story" and " The Orgin of Stories" are two fictional stories with a
different setting, style, and structure. However, they both emphasize on the same theme: the importance of story-telling.
"Seneca Legend" displays fictional characters and circumstances that contrast with Sukenick's fictional story: "What's Your Story" is rich in post-realistic elements. Post -realism emerged with the post-war generations that were looking for freedom of expression, and it seems that Sukenick found his way of expressing himself, rebelling against realistic writers who followed a chronological time, and had an organized structure. To begin with, there is no structure at all in Sukenick's story. However, four different fictional lines can be identified: The romance, the thriller, the story about story-writing, and the observed outer reality.
The romance is characterized not in the least by the traditional romance developed during the XVIII or XIX centuries, but rather by a sexual exuberance which early romantics may have considered a taboo subject and may have found rather shocking to read. The writer becomes involved in the romance and describes one of his two lovers, Joan, in a very violent and harsh manner. He writes: "She was a terrific piece of ass, a slim fertility godess, dazed with too much fucking and too many abortions." He admits he loves Joan but not in the way any man may really love a woman...