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Novellas

Must read novellas. Please recommend me novellas of quality. Especially ones that could introduce me to various authors.

Please don't link me to /lit/'s Wiki page of novellas, already read most of them.

Novella

>> No.1229019

Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
The Dead by Joyce
The Duel by Chekov

>> No.1229042
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>>1229005
You read most of these? Damn.

>> No.1229060

>Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe

not OP, but I was kind of disappointed by this. it's just so...flat. maybe i'll give it another chance someday.

>> No.1229131

>>1229042
Yes, and I would like more.

>> No.1229168

>>1229131
Please*

Sorry, don't want to come off as an ass-hole.

>> No.1229174

THE RED LAUGH!

>> No.1229207

A HERO OF OUR TIME

>> No.1229242

DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

>> No.1229249

THE VAMPYRE: A TALE

>> No.1229260

THE MEEK ONE

HELP ME OUT GUYS.

>> No.1229261

CLARISSA: THE TEENAGE WITCH

>> No.1229264

Hopscotch

>> No.1229290

>>1229264
>600 pages
>novella

I don't think so, Tim.

>> No.1229333

THE MEEK ONE

>> No.1229342

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Asya, First Love, Torrents of Spring, Diary of a Superfluous Man
Fatal Eggs
Monsieur Pain, By Night in Chile
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Breast

>> No.1229575

THE VAMPYRE: A TALE

>> No.1229577

Apt Pupil

seriously, it's really good.

>> No.1229582

>>1229577
I ALSO ENJOYED THIS.

>> No.1229766

Well, if you've already read the bit of Japanese literature on there, here's some more novella-sized stuff:

House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
The Lake by Yasunari Kawabata
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
A Cat, A Man, and Two Women by Junichiro Tanizaki
Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
Quicksand by Junichiro Tanizaki
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
The Three-Cornered World by Natsume Soseki
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi

A couple are slightly over 200 pages, but I think they are still pretty novella-ish. If you're unfamiliar with Japanese authors, a lot of this would be good introductory works for them.

>> No.1229770

The Old Man and the Sea

>> No.1229774

>>1229766
Got links?

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>>1229766
I'm not too familiar with Japanese literature, but I'd recommend that people steer clear of Banana Yoshimoto, because she is truly terrible.

>> No.1229782

>>1229774
Nope, Japanese literature is really hard to get ahold on in ebook form, aside from the Murakami's and a few other recent authors. Libraries usually have a least a few of those though, I think.

>> No.1229791

>>1229781
What have you read of hers so far?

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>>1229791
I'll admit that I haven't studied her with any particular depth. I only read a collection of short stories called 'Lizard.' I'm kind of a short story nerd and I can usually knock out a book of short stories fairly quickly, but I really had to muscle my way through her stories. The stories just felt very weak and unfocused, and I honestly can't remember a single one, which is a bad sign really. The diction was pretty drab and uninteresting as well (needlessly so), though maybe this could be blamed on the translator.

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1229806

No, seriously.