/lit/ - Literature

>>6273994
I've already read Chekhov. I can respect what he did for literature but I didn't enjoy his stories. Only read Lady with a Dog and other stories, or something like that.

Poe is definitely one that I have high hopes for. I enjoy a good ghost story/horror story and the few I read of his years ago were pretty damn good.
>>6273995
Noted
>>6274001
>Nabakov
I didn't even notice..
>>6274013
Hm. Well how about you give an example of what is pomo in IJ and I give an example of what is pomo in his short fiction? Actually I'll give two.

There are a set of stories where the author explains that he planned for 8 stories to be produced and to connect to one another but couldn't finish, so instead there are only, if I remember right, three finished stories, and a fourth which is a rough skeleton of how the 8 stories were supposed to go.

There is another set of stories, three, that are connected through one revelation. The revelation is fairly easy to see coming, and the pay is very, very shallow. The set begins with the story "On his Deathbed.." and is a father on his deathbed talking to a supposed priest about how he hates his son. It turns out the priest is his son, the father simply can't tell because he is dying. This is not the revelation I mentioned before. The next two stories set up a mother character with a guilt complex and how this affects her son. You can then connect the three and see that these three stories are about the same family, and that the evil son is the author of all three short stories. The twist goes nowhere since the son is just a flat cardboard evil character who exploits his family.

What about stories with ghosts?

Whenever I bring up ghost stories on here and ask for anything that isn't just pulp good fun horror, like King, I only get James' A Turn of the Screw.

>>5952701
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>>5057720