"Flash Fiction" is a type of fictional literature that is not used as often as others. This might be due to the fact that in order to convey the fiction to the readers, lots of detail and depth is demanded. However, there are occasional cases where the author can bring across exactly what he wants, with the minimum amount of words. This is what we are experiencing with Richard Currey's fiction " Fatal Light".
Currey brings across his message with few striking words, that create vivid images in the readers mind. He uses a technique which is often used in war; efficient, surprising and effective strikes which barely last a minute. The amount of information and feeling that he hereby delivers to the reader is surprising and overwhelming. It is this way, that he keeps the reader interested and wondering. It is this kind of unusual fiction which he uses to make the reader feel fear for having to leave home for war; feel the terror of being a medic constantly risking his life; and his confusion about this world and its ways of functioning. His short glimpses of memory convey war and the state of chaos, portraying hectic and terror as a life style. Once again showing the readers the intensity and reality of vietnam.
Richard Currey's fiction " Fatal Light" gives the reader an understanding of the Vietnam War by using flashback's of the narrators experience before, during, and after the Vietnam War. This is established by vivid short stories which use major aspects of imagery.
ReplyDelete" Flas Fiction" is a type of fictional literature that is not used as often as others. This might be due to the fact that in order to convey the fiction to the readers, lots of detail and depth is needed. However, there are occasional cases where the author can bring across exactly what he wants, with the minimum amount of words. This is what we are experiencing with Richard Currey's fiction "Fatal Light". Currey brings across his message with few striking words, that create vivid images in the readers mind. He uses a technique which is often used in war; efficient, surprising and effective strikes which barely last a minute. The amount of information and feeling that he hereby delivers to the reader is surprising and overwhelming.Some examples of these short glimpses are : "There was a low dirty skyline beyond me, factory haze and exhaust smudge. An island drifted downstream, a paradise appearing out of clouds, and a coal barge came toward me, humming a slow wake north."(p.9), "A leg wound, my trouser leg blood-soaked, fabric congealed in muscle and other wounded around me calling out."(p.67) It is this way, that he keeps the reader interested and wondering. This kind of unusual fiction is used to make the reader feel fear for having to leave home for war; feel the terror of being a medic, constantly risking his life; and his confusion about this world and its ways of functioning.
We can conclude that his short glimpses of memory convey war and the state of chaos, portraying hectic and terror as a life style. Once again showing the readers the intensity and reality of Vietnam.