Again the differences between novella and opera are instructive.
In the novella, cunning bridges the gap between the deviant and the representative of the law who both indulge in fabulation, artifice, and manipulation.
If he were, then one of the four chapters of the novella would have been assigned to him.
This alignment, indeed, determines the chronotopic structure that organizes each of her colonial novellas.
The writer as narrator also features unfortunately in this juvenile rendition of the novella.
The image is reinforced in other passages, just as it is echoed in narrative descriptions throughout the novella.
This probably also explains his preference for the short story and novella as forms of literary expression.
The subsequent discussion of the role of the romantic short story or novella is particularly evocative.
