/lit/ - Literature

>”The novel is dead”
They’re overly self conscious

lol that annoys me too

How am I supposed to know if it's a novel if they don't splay it across the cover?

>>17801577
>[title], or The Modern [title of classic work]
>[title]: Poems
>[title]: A Play
>[title]: Short Stories

>"The loss of image or by the mountains of Gredos"
>someone decided to put a sticker saying "A romance by the Nobel prize in literature Peter Handke"
>remove the sticker
>it's just hiding the year it was published here (2012)

>Novel: A Poem

>>17801577
that's not a subtitle.

>>17802561
He's an idiot, let him be.

>>17801577

<Novel Title>
A Novel

by <Author>
An Author

Chapter One
In which various essential introductory Duties are discharged, most importantly the presentation of our Hero and his Environs.

Chapter Two
In which our Narrative is continued and assorted Themes are expanded.

I personally hate when a short story collection is titles "TITLE OF SHORT STORY and other stories".
Just come up with some title for the collection, Jesus Christ.

>>17802873
I wonder if anyone's done that but not have the title 'story' in the collection.

>>17802873
Some of Agatha Christie's collections suffer from that. There was one with a hound in the title, only they put the story further down, so I had a bit of a laugh at myself because I kept wondering when will I finally read about that dog.

>>17801577
>Novel is subtitled "A Novel Approach to the Prose Narrative Genre..."

>>17802901
<Title>
An Extended Work Of Prose Fiction, Published In Three Volumes, Of Which This Constitutes The First

>>17802882
That would have to be some serious error in printing. Not that it can't happen, but I imagine any example would end up first in trash and then as rare collection item.
Penguin Classics edition of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Thief doesn't have Seven of Hearts, Queen's Necklace and Madame Imbert's Safe, but the collection has its own title anyway. They instead added some stories from other collections.

>>17802936
Have to correct myself, it has Queen's Necklace, but not Black Pearl.

>>17802942
Any reason for it?

>>17802960
I don't know, Black Pearl is a rather weak story, but the other two are interesting part of Lupin lore, how he "met" Leblanc and the story of how young Lupin got duped by better swindlers. Guess they wanted to cover more than one collection, but didn't have the budget for actually publishing all three.

>>17802868
kek

thats how you know it's kino

>>17802873
Carver did that for all four collections and didn't even bother with the "and other stories" bit. Just "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please", etc ("WYPBQP" is a great title, though.) I think it works if the one story is clearly central in the collection. Otherwise it's a bit lame. "For Esmé With Love And Squalor" doesn't quite work, for that reason. (I think that story is the best in the book but it's not really predominant.) IIRC the collection was originally published under the title "Nine Stories".

The best short story collection title I can think of that's not a story title is "Tales of the Unexpected".

>>17803041
I think you might be confusing Carter with Salinger.

I thought Wolfe's The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories was a fun title for a short story collection.

>>17802882
Sometimes the title story is actually a novella, that's about as close as I've seen

thoughts on cover design?