SHAPE-SHIFTING: NEW (AND OLD) SHORT STORY THEORIES

The Golden Age of the Latin American short story took place between 1945 and 1965. During that same time, a more secret process took place: the development of the field of short story theory. This article offers a historiography of this process in order to, on the one hand, study the elements proposed by writers as constitutive of the short story and, on the other, take a look at more contemporary approaches. The objective is to analyze the friction between two tendencies at the heart of the genre, according to writers: its experimental nature and its spherical, or self-enclosed, form.