Differences between short story and novel

Differences between short story and novel

As he story as the novel are two narrative genres and its main difference lies in the length, since the first is a short story, while the second can cover hundreds of pages.

Like any narrative text, both the story and the novel are usually structured in three parts:

However, the short story and the novel as literary genres they present some significant differences.

Particular characteristics of the story

Some of the most outstanding characteristics of the short story genre are:

Particular characteristics of the novel

Some of the most outstanding characteristics of the novel genre are:

Story examples

1. "El Aleph", by Jorge Luis Borges.
2. "House taken", by Julio Cortázar.
3. "The String Quartet", by Virginia Woolf.
4. "The Tell-Tale Heart", by Edgar Allan Poe.
5. "The Infanta's Birthday", by Oscar Wilde.
6. "Better than burning", by Clarice Lispector.
7. "The hunchback", by Roberto Arlt.
8. "The Diary of Porfiria Bernal", by Silvina Ocampo.
9. "The black cat", by Edgar Allan Poe.
10. "Telephone calls", by Roberto Bolaño.
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11. "The Garden of Forking Paths", by Jorge Luis Borges.
12. “El recado”, by Elena Poniatowska.
13. "Tell them not to kill me!" by Juan Rulfo.
14. "El cape", by Nikolai Gogol.
15. "The curious case of Benjamin Button", by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
16. "The train to Bordeaux", by Marguerite Duras.
17. "The continuity of the parks", by Julio Cortázar.
18. "The snows of Kilimanjaro", by Ernest Hemingway.
19. "The apothecary's wife", by Antón Chejov.
20. "Blue tale", by Marguerite Yourcenar.
21. "The feather cushion", by Horacio Quiroga.
22. "A rose for Emilia", by William Faulkner.
23. "Before the law", by Franz Kafka.
24. "Cornelia in front of the mirror", by Silvina Ocampo.
25. "The Purloined Letter", by Edgar Allan Poe.
26. "That woman", by Rodolfo Walsh.
27. “Afternoon in August”, by José Emilio Pacheco.
28. "Corazonada", by Mario Benedetti.
29. "The moons of Jupiter", by Alice Munro.
30. "Paco Yunque", by César Vallejo.
31. "The younger brother", Mario Vargas Llosa.
32. "The barrel of amontillado", by Edgar Allan Poe.
33. "In memory of Paulina", by Adolfo Bioy Casares.
34. "The crocodile", by Felisberto Hernández.
35. "Lonely hearts", Rubem Fonseca.
36. "The smallest woman in the world", by Clarice Lispector.
37. "The trace of your blood in the snow", by Gabriel García Márquez.
38. "The condemnation", by Franz Kafka.
39. "The Axolotl", by Julio Cortázar.
40. "A drift", by Horacio Quiroga.
41. "Ball of tallow", by Guy de Maupassant.
42. "The Emperor's New Clothes", by Hans Christian Andersen.
43. "Light a bonfire", by Jack London.
44. “Funes el memorioso”, by Jorge Luis Borges.
45. "The Lady with the Dog", by Antón Chejov.
46. "The rain of fire", by Leopoldo Lugones.
47. "There is no way to paradise", by Charles Bukowski.
48. "On Finding the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" by Haruki Murakami.
49. “You can't hear the dogs barking”, by Juan Rulfo.
50. "The soft rains will come", by F. Ray Bradbury.

Examples of novels

1. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quijote of La Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes when we have the information.
2. One hundred years of loneliness, by Gabriel García Márquez when we have the information.
3. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
4. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert.
5. The House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende.
6. Anna Karenina, by Leon Tolstoy.
7. The little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry when we have the information.
8. The invention of Morel, scored by Adolfo Bioy Casares when we have the information.
9. The Great Gatsby, by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain.
11. In Search of Lost Timeby Marcel Proust.
12. The Lord of the rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien.
13. 1984, by George Orwell.
14. The mad toy by Roberto Arlt.
15. The party of the goat, by Mario Vargas Llosa when we have the information.
16. War and peace, by Leon Tolstoy.
17. Aura, by Carlos Fuentes.
18. Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley.
19. The wild detectives by Roberto Bolaño when we have the information.
20. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë.
21. Hopscotch, by Julio Cortázar.
22. The harp and the shadow, scored by Alejo Carpentier.
23. The tunnel, by Ernesto Sabato when we have the information.
24. In the name of the rose, by Umberto Eco.
25. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf.
26. A Chronicle of a Death Foretoldby Gabriel García Márquez.
27. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Sallinger.
28. Leonora, by Elena Poniatowska when we have the information.
29. Moby Dick, by Herman Melville.
30. The man who loved the dogs, by Leonardo Padura.
31. Ulises, by James Joyce.
32. The memories of the future, scored by Elena Garro.
33. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas.
34. The Miserables, by Victor Hugo.
35. The bell jar by Sylvia Plath.
36. Around the world in eighty days, by Jules Verne.
37. Pedro Paramo, by Juan Rulfo.
38. Cold-blooded, by Truman Capote.
39. The magic mountain by Thomas Mann.
40. Abroad, by Albert Camus.
41. Fahrenheit 451, by F. Ray Bradbury.
42. Essay on blindness, by José Saramago when we have the information.
43. Burnt silver by Ricardo Piglia.
44. Dracula by Bram Stoker.
45. Red and black of Stendhal.
46. Operation Massacre, by Rodolfo Walsh when we have the information.
47. I the Supreme, scored by Augusto Roa Bastos when we have the information.
48. The hour of the star, by Clarice Lispector.
49. Truceby Mario Benedetti.
50. The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Atwwod.

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