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I am looking at getting collections of short stories that are great. So far I've read a lot of Borges' short stories and a lot of Hawthorne's short stories. What's next? I've heard Salinger's short story collection is good.

>> No.18574317

>Short stories

Kek. Don't have attention span for longer ones?

>> No.18574318

>>18574297
If you haven't got it already, Dubliners is great

>> No.18574320

>>18574317
fpbp, read In Search of Lost Time OP

>> No.18574324

>>18574297
Boccaccio's are terrific.

>> No.18574333

>>18574317
Kek. Don’t have similar aesthetic tastes than I? Surely you must be deficient, to disagree with meeeeeeee

>> No.18574334

>>18574297
Hemingway, Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor's short stories are are great; Joyce's Dubliners is a must-read, as are Borges and Anton Chekhov's too

>> No.18574341

>>18574333
Enjoy your shorties the, brainlet.

>> No.18574355

>>18574297
Death in Midsummer

>> No.18574796

>>18574297
read sallinger's

>>18574334
some of these are meh

>> No.18574801

I saw Ficciones for 1$ at my used book store and chose not to buy it.

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>>18574297
Read the story of Andreuccio da Perugia and then get back to me. Tell me that isn't funnier than anything from Borges. "Dead men don't bite."

>> No.18574832

>>18574297
arabian nights, and novelas ejemplares of Cervantes.

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>>18574297
>... short stories that are great.
>... Borges' short stories...


...

>> No.18575112

El Llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo

>> No.18575120

>>18574932
How do you translate 'cuentos', as tales?

>> No.18575164

>>18575120


YEP.

>> No.18575187

Flannery O'Connor 100%

>> No.18575208

>>18575164
haha lol cum genius haha what dude you know a lot about cum? haha lol lmao hah

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>>18574297
W. Somerset Maugham is the Bee's knees of short story writers

>> No.18575219

>>18574334
All of these are fantastic. I would add Nabokov, Krzhizhanovsky, and Bruno Schulz.

>> No.18575248

Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier is pure kino, recommended if you liked Borges or Dahl

>> No.18575400

>>18574317
>>18574320
Any single short story of Borges has more value than Proust's opus and your favorite books combined.

>> No.18575719

>>18574297
Donald Barthelme's Sixty and Forty Stories

>> No.18576031

No bad recs in this thread.

My favourites are Dubliners, Exemplary Novels, Chekhov, Nabokov, Chandler, and Dostoevsky (D.'s short stories are criminally underrated)

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18576170

Anyone here read Oblivion by DFW?

>> No.18576188

>>18576170
None of us have, but we all have an opinion about it.

>> No.18576367

Akutagawa, Babel and Schulz.

>> No.18576421

washington irving, you won't regret it

>> No.18577513

Roberto Artl wrote some great ones. I have no idea if they were translated.

>> No.18577525

Hemingway
Chekhov
Turgenev (A Sportsman’s Notebook)
Salinger
Gogol
O’Connor

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>>18574297
Read these.

>> No.18577723

>>18574297
Salinger, Hemingway, Joyce, Henry James, Kafka, Poe