Abstract
Focusing on the personal poetics of modern Spanish writers, this article surveys the overriding preoccupations regarding the status and future of the short story. What emerges from the survey is ample evidence of a nostalgia for a pre-market-driven era in which the story held its own, a continued preoccupation with seducing the reader as fiction's primary goal, an obsessive concern with the story's more successful cousin the novel, a tendency to repeat and reject or reaffirm prescriptive story telling techniques inherited from the past, and an insistence on the story's privileged access to the chaos and indeterminacy of modern life.
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