It is not uncommon for writers to debut with collections of short stories.
It wasn’t so with Paul Marcel.
With three novels under his belt, it had never occurred to Paul to try his hand at another brand of fiction.
Available in this volume, “Homeland” and “The Post Office woman” grew for years in the recess of the mind where ideas are born, all but forgotten, when Paul fig-ured out the shape they were to take at some point in 2021.
Writing them at last was the catalyst of the succession of nineteen stories that make up “View from the tower”.
The author himself acknowledges that enunciation and subject matter are of a different sort here. His penchant for synthesis, manifest in his opinion pieces and re-views, makes stories more concise than usual in this genre. Arguments compress emo-tionally charged situations to maximize them.
Among others, we will acquaint ourselves with an actor who brings out more of himself than he’d like to be able to perform; with a married couple who builds too many expectations towards their children; with a renowned chef who no longer enjoys cooking after a devastating personal loss.
Similarly to his more voluminous works of fiction, in these short stories Paul’s viewpoint shifts between judiciousness and compassion in conducting the fates of his characters.
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