Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Sep. 2009
Popularly, people in their ordinary language call a story to that knowledge that is transmitted almost always with much detail regarding the occurrence of a certain fact or situation, transcending the literature and the written word, that is, when someone tells something to another person, they are relating a situation, building a story.
Meanwhile, one of the distinctive signs of that story is the detail with which it narrates the fact or event in question, for example, precise dates are provided and list with remarkable accuracy all those issues that make up the story: people involved, places where the events took place, among others.
Now, it is important that we mention that not all people have the ability to elaborate a detailed account of something and that it is also interesting for the interlocutor. In other words, we can all relate anything, but there are some people who have a special gift for recounting the things that happen to them in life, their adventures and incidents.
Let's not think that we are facing something simple and that everyone can carry out right away. None of that, the story of course requires a series of conditions present in the person who relates, that he may have acquired them through the years or experience itself, or as a consequence of the education received in a timely manner, for example training in language and literature.
Normally those extroverted people who are owners of great discursive fluency stand out in this regard.
In the journalistic field, stories turn out to be very common, especially when special topics are addressed, such as investigation about some transcendent fact of past or recent history and then, a media or a journalist summons some involved or witnesses to provide a detailed account of what they saw or experienced when that event occurred.
Meanwhile, also, to the word story is used to designate a type of literary genre that consists of a form of narration whose extension in number of pages turns out to be less than that of a novel and even that of the nouvelle. That is, the literary story is characterized by its brevity, it is a story.
Then, those stories that for example do not turn out to be so extensive and narrations of all kinds that are not very extensive will be called stories.
The question of extension turns out to be almost almost an equanomless condition and what to a certain extent allows us to classify and determine when a literary story is plausible to be called a story, inasmuch as that brevity that highlights it does not in any way dent against the quality or the interest that this type of literature arouses in the amateur public.
There are many cultists by the way that these people have around the world.
Because it is a genre that undoubtedly offers us tremendous and unique possibilities. Hyper-recognized authors such as Truman Capote, Julio Cortázar, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges and Edgar Allan Poe, among others, have certainly shown us how formidable this type of gender.
Basically the story consists of telling a certain story but without reflecting it in its entirety, but rather presenting it in a compact form and only making emphasis on some details and moments that will be the ones that the author or rapporteur will put the most emphasis on when telling the story because they are considered to be the most decisive.
The authors of a story will leave to the free imagination and thought superfluous details so that they compose them internally and complete the story as they please, because the idea is to achieve impact but with the fewest words possible.
The facts that will be exposed in a story can come from two different sources, from fiction, such as an epic, a short story, or from non-fiction, as is the case of the news.
Discursive heterogeneity prevails in the story, allowing various types of discourses to appear in the body of the story.
Unlike what happens with the story, in which all the indications must inevitably lead us to the knot and finally to the outcome, requiring a previous work by the author, the story is of immediate inspiration and does not require any type of preparation previous. And another differential feature with respect to the story is that, as mentioned above, it allows the inclusion of non-fiction elements.
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