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What's the /lit/ verdict? Should I get his collected works?

>> No.21465508

Sick name, Yes.

>> No.21465534

>>21465501
i read carlos fuentes viejo gringo and am know very interested in bierce. If you want a sort of poetic introduction to the man himself, read that novel.

>> No.21465956

>>21465501
I think he's terrific, but his collected works...? For me that would be too much of a good thing. But I am not you.

By the by, Edmund Wilson has a nice chapter on Bierce in Patriotic Gore.

>> No.21466228

>>21465501
Yeah. His short stories are great. The Devil's Dictionary is still relevant and very funny.

>> No.21466263

>>21465501
Ambrose Bierce, or BASED Bierce as I like to call him, is the greatest American writer of short stories.

>> No.21466476

A little too snarky for my tastes desu

>> No.21466479

>In 1913, Bierce told reporters that he was travelling to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution.[16] He disappeared and was never seen again.

>> No.21466505

The Death of Halpin Frayser is great, his war stories and horror stories in general are. His sense of humor however is extremely acerbic and functions well in the Devil’s Dictionary because of the little doses, but his satirical stories and fables are very bitter, he was called “Bitter Bierce” for them, they feature very black humor, one features a hypnotist who uses his powers to rape a schoolgirl and get people to kill each other, another story about a guy who melts his dad for fat, and mind you these are his joke stories

>> No.21466512

>>21466505
kek this sounds great

>> No.21466662
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21466662

>>21466479
>Just before noon on April 27, 1932, Crane jumped overboard into the Gulf of Mexico. Although he had been drinking heavily and left no suicide note, witnesses believed his intentions to be suicidal, as several reported that he exclaimed "Goodbye, everybody!" before throwing himself overboard. His body was never recovered.

Ohio writers go out hard

>> No.21467620

>>21465501
Yeah. His short stories are great. The Devil's Dictionary is still relevant and very funny.

>> No.21467634

>>21466479
Average Mexico experience

>> No.21467787

>>21466505
Edgy, cool, and with a sardonic sense of humor? Sounds like just the guy for me! But unironically.

>> No.21468555

>>21466662
Who is this guy

>> No.21468654

>>21468555
Hart Crane

>> No.21469898

>>21465501
Bump

>> No.21469913

>>21466476
same here

>> No.21471001

Ambrose "I'm something off a socialist myself" Bierce

https://books.google.com/books?id=ALkOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA17

>> No.21471523

>>21465501
Only read a few short stories of his and i think all of them were excellent. Which are moxon’s master, the damned thing, An Inhabitant of Carcosa and an occurrence in owl creek bridge. Another thing I’ll say is, that they’re Punchy.he doesn’t holds his stories any longer then he should. He’s one of those authors i feel should be better known.

>> No.21471533

>>21466505
>a hypnotist who uses his powers to rape a schoolgirl and get people to kill each other
Unless he wrote an incredibly similar story to it with the opposite ending that I haven't read yet, you severely misunderstood Realm of the Unreal.

>> No.21471801

>>21465508
I'm partial to "Clark Ashton Smith" myself.