Solzhenitsyn and a Dubious Nod to the Genre

Finally, someone refers to the chronicle as a genre, even if he doesn't mean to flatter it.

In the Observer in England, reviewing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Apricot Jam and Other Stories,  Adam Mars-Jones calls it "a posthumous collection of rather hefty, lumpen chronicles written in the 1990s – I say 'chronicles' rather than 'stories' because there's so little sign of the ruthless shaping the short form requires."

And good on you, Adam, for tilting against against the genre of the chronicle, which has become far too ubiquitous and successful. About time someone cut it down to size.