SIGNIFICANCE AND PURPOSE OF VIOLENCE IN THE SHORT STORIES OF ROALD DAHL
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Abstract
Dahl's short storey assortments, Someone Like You, Kiss, Kiss, and Switch Bitch, were
striking for being blockbusters in a market overwhelmed by books and journals when they
were at their top in the last part of the 1940s and 1950s. Dahl's accounts seem to have sold
all around the world in an assortment of dialects, and they seem to have acquired him a
superstar (Howard 2004). Some of them were even adjusted for the little screen by Alfred
Hitchcock, who released them as Tales of the Unexpected to a worldwide audience. The
stories were definitely influential, according to Philip Howard, who sees them as
"trendsetters of the popular 1960s black comedy genre" (Howard 2004). Other notable works
of the period bear their imprint, such as Ernest Bloch's Psycho, which has striking
similarities to Dahl's short storey 'The Landlady' and includes the type of surprising ending
Dahl favoured.
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