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b) Otra serie de relatos inéditos, escritos en su mayor parte para la creative writing class de la profesora Sylvia Chatfield Bates de New York University. Se trata de textos de diversa calidad, pero todos ellos de gran interés bibliográfico y muy reveladores, como veremos, del desarrollo de una técnica y un estilo literarios que pronto llamarían la atención del público con la aparición de The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Este segundo grupo es el que nos interesa en nuestro estudio: “Sucker”, “Court in the West Eighties”, “Poldi”, “Breath from the Sky”, “The Orphanage”, “Instant of the Hour After”, “Aliens” y “Untitled Piece”.

Marguerite G. Smith, explicando el propósito de la antología, hace un comentario interesante sobre este segundo grupo de relatos que McCullers nunca se molestó en recuperar de entre sus papeles para publicar o corregir siquiera:

So this book is to give some idea of the early work of a writer and to illustrate, within the range of material chosen from her least known work, the development of that talent. My hope is that Carson would have approved. I am plagued with doubt because I wonder why Carson did not collect some of this material while she was living since money was always a problem. Her expenses were excessive doctors, nursing care, hospitals andan invalid’s more than ordinary necessities. However, writers usually think more about their current work and their future plans than about what has already been written and she may not have had the strength or the interest to put together such a book. In fact, she may have fogotten these early stories existed. (M.G.Smith 1985: 14)