Editor’s Note: Paul Zumthor’s “La Brièveté comme forme” is a suggestive take on the relations between brevity and form, one that also addresses questions about such matters as narrative time and about what is and isn’t narrative. Because the essay is not well-known among narrative theorists, I welcomed William Nelles’s proposal that Narrative publish the translation by him and Laurence Thiollier Moscato. I am also grateful that Professor Nelles agreed to provide this introductory frame for the essay that puts it in the larger context of Zumthor’s career.

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“简洁即形式”简介

编者按：保罗·卒姆托的“La Brièveté comme forme”是对简洁与形式之间关系的一种暗示性看法，它还解决了诸如叙事时间以及什么是叙事和什么不是叙事等问题。由于这篇文章在叙事理论家中并不为人所知，我欢迎威廉·内勒斯 (William Nelles) 的提议，即《叙事》出版他和劳伦斯·蒂奥利尔·莫斯卡托 (Laurence Thiollier Moscato) 的翻译。我也很感激 Nelles 教授同意为这篇文章提供这个介绍性框架，将其置于卒姆托职业生涯的更大背景下。