Extraordinary Power of Perception into the Inner World of Human Heart and its Caprices in the Short Stories of Alice Munro

Abstract

Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as “master of the contemporary short story”, Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian author writing in English. Munro’s work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Munro’s writing has established her as one of greatest contemporary writers of fiction and has been even called “Our Chekhov”. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. She is tremendously skilled at mapping out the contours of her characters’ psyches which at once make them familiar. It is this very special skill that this article endeavours to elaborate.