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Frank Sargeson's Stories | NZETC

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This essay was first published as an Introduction to Frank Sargeson's Collected Stories 1935-1963 (Blackwood and Janet Paul 1964). Frank Sargeson's stories have been so long out of print that it has been difficult for younger readers to know at first hand the work of a writer early accepted as 'a pioneer and vital power'1 in New Zealand writing, who was for a generation of writers of fiction something of what Gogol was to the nineteenth century Russian novelists. The sixteen signatures to a letter to Mr Sargeson on his fiftieth birthday (in which they acknowledge their debt to him)2 are in fact a roll-call of New Zealand writers of fiction of the time: the only name missing is that of Mr Sargeson's senior in age and date of first publication, John A. Lee. And it can be said that even for those writers who have begun to publish since that date, their job has been made easier and their success more possible by Mr Sargeson's going before them. It was in 1935 that, sorting a little incongr

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