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The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hekkanen: Naturalistic, Modern Gothic, Surreal & Postmodern by Ernest Hekkanen
Guaranteed to be the most impressive, least-talked-about fiction accomplishment of 2010, the 880 pages and 73 stories of Volume One and Volume Two of The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hekkanen: Naturalistic, Modern Gothic, Surreal & Postmodern represent an astonishing range and depth over forty years of highly original storytelling.
None of the stories in the twin compilations escaped editing, and a few were extensively re-worked.
After 41 books, he has written, "My history as a writer has been that of believing in myself and my work, in the face of near anonymity-which, rather early in my career, after my first few books were published, became my modus operandi. Indeed, working in solitude and anonymity became a kind of discipline for me. For a long time, it was my belief that a writer should write as though he didn't desire to be read, for, in the end, when our solar system performs its final feat of collapsing, all the words in all the books on the face of the earth won't be words enough to animate the human tongue.";
Bill Gaston has dubbed Hekkanen as Canadian literature's "most resolute maverick."; Possibly Hekkanen would agree. Meanwhile this iconoclast will just have to do his life over again before tastemakers in eastern Canada care to recognize his output.
978-1-894842-17-4; 978-1-894842-18-1
[BCBW 2010]
None of the stories in the twin compilations escaped editing, and a few were extensively re-worked.
After 41 books, he has written, "My history as a writer has been that of believing in myself and my work, in the face of near anonymity-which, rather early in my career, after my first few books were published, became my modus operandi. Indeed, working in solitude and anonymity became a kind of discipline for me. For a long time, it was my belief that a writer should write as though he didn't desire to be read, for, in the end, when our solar system performs its final feat of collapsing, all the words in all the books on the face of the earth won't be words enough to animate the human tongue.";
Bill Gaston has dubbed Hekkanen as Canadian literature's "most resolute maverick."; Possibly Hekkanen would agree. Meanwhile this iconoclast will just have to do his life over again before tastemakers in eastern Canada care to recognize his output.
978-1-894842-17-4; 978-1-894842-18-1
[BCBW 2010]
Submitted on June 4, 2010 in By David.
