Después de la vida

Abstract

Talking about the story is referring to the endless possibilities that this literary genre has offered from its most remote bases with orality; going from the classic to the modern tale and currently ending with the postmodern tale and the breadth of new proposals around the mini-fiction and its itinerant character. One of the notable issues that concern the story is precisely that brief and stressful. Well, in the field of education, in the daily life of man immersed in a postmodern, commodified and global society, and even in the initiation to the world of Literature is one of the genres that teachers frequently use in the classroom. Thanks to the current characteristics of youth and childhood, where brevity is transformed fundamentally for the development of activities, as well as the use of time in any human realm. As a genre, the tale can be transformed into an element of initiation for the entry of young people, adults and even children to literature. The story as a possibility of meeting the taste of literature. As an opening resource, it is quite practical in the school context. Its importance becomes evident throughout history, from oral tradition it is configured as one of the most relevant media for the art of telling, telling stories from different optics; to preserve traditions, languages, experiences, myths and legends. In essence, as a means of preserving culture. Today, the story offers even more ways of being and doing, the metamorphosis that has experienced in the last century allows it even to move into the world of cyberspace and interact continuously with a writer who also becomes a reader. Nevertheless, the inclination for this literary genre transcends the possibilities offered by postmodernity. From the structure offered by the classic tale, the fascination for it is clear both in readers and writers, and it is from this fascination that the idea of ​​realizing an anthology with a subject so substantial, complex and widely covered in different disciplines such as fear of death.