Note 397 — Chapter IX · SOUL-IMAGE AND LIFE-FEELING
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
We too have our anecdote, but it is of our own type and diametrically opposed to the Classical. It is the “short story” (Novelle)—the story of Cervantes, Kleist, Hoffmann and Storm—and we admire it in proportion as we are made to feel that its motive is possible only this once, at this time and with these people, whereas the mythic type of anecdote, the Fable, is judged by precisely opposite criteria.