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“Pastorale” is a short story written by James M. Cain and published in 1927 by editor H. L. Mencken in The American Mercury. Written in the Ring Lardner style, the tale is told in a first-person narrative, delivered in the dialect of a resident of rural America. Both the point-of-view and the use of colloquial dialect for his protagonists, fully established in “Pastorale”, would be applied in many of Cain’s novels. Biographer Roy Hoopes considers this early work “an extremely important event in Cain’s evolution as a writer of fiction…”

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  • “Pastorale” is a short story written by James M. Cain and published in 1927 by editor H. L. Mencken in The American Mercury. Written in the Ring Lardner style, the tale is told in a first-person narrative, delivered in the dialect of a resident of rural America. Both the point-of-view and the use of colloquial dialect for his protagonists, fully established in “Pastorale”, would be applied in many of Cain’s novels. Cain’s first published short story, "Pastorale” is distinguished from his earlier dialogues and sketches he had produced for The American Mercury since 1924. The story describes a gruesome small-town murder of an elderly married man by two local men, one of whom wishes to marry his young wife. Biographer Roy Hoopes considers this early work “an extremely important event in Cain’s evolution as a writer of fiction…” (en)
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  • “Pastorale” is a short story written by James M. Cain and published in 1927 by editor H. L. Mencken in The American Mercury. Written in the Ring Lardner style, the tale is told in a first-person narrative, delivered in the dialect of a resident of rural America. Both the point-of-view and the use of colloquial dialect for his protagonists, fully established in “Pastorale”, would be applied in many of Cain’s novels. Biographer Roy Hoopes considers this early work “an extremely important event in Cain’s evolution as a writer of fiction…” (en)
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  • Pastorale (short story) (en)
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