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short stories Anonymous Tue Oct 17 23:06:21 2017 No.10160255 [Reply] [Original]

What's the equivalent of "start with the Greeks" for short stories? I mean, what is a list of the essential short stories or collections of short stories that one should start with? I realized that ever since I started reading a lot 3 years ago I've mostly read novels, but want to read more short stories now. (Some of the things I've read that you don't need to mention: Kafka's shorts, Dubliners, Borges', Hemingway's, Vonnegut's). I also know pic related is supposed to be good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 17 23:11:25 2017 No.10160267 >>10160255 >What's the equivalent of "start with the Greeks" for short stories? Petrarch and Chaucer?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 17 23:23:27 2017 No.10160296 >>10160255 Most English text books tell you all you need to know about short stories

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 00:11:18 2017 No.10160424 >>10160255 Read Raymond Carver

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 10:08:50 2017 No.10161507 >>10160255 Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Maupassant, Flaubert, Merimee, Hoffmann, Hawthorne.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 10:10:14 2017 No.10161509 >>10161507 >Gogol r o f l

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 10:19:33 2017 No.10161529 >>10160424 This.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 10:22:33 2017 No.10161531 The Greek plays.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 10:24:02 2017 No.10161534 >>10161509 Gogol is great.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 14:29:28 2017 No.10162306 >>10161507 This >>10161509 >>10161531 >>10160267 Not these. Plays and poems aren't short stories, and Gogol is a genius.

>>	EPIC OF GILGAMESH Wed Oct 18 14:35:07 2017 No.10162319 File: 550 KB, 1920x1080, civilizationvisumeriagilgameshhero[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] All of the above is wrong.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 21:33:24 2017 No.10163672 >>10160255 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Gulliver's Travels (viewed by many as a novel, although I see it as a collection of 4 short stories. Worth a read.)

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 21:37:34 2017 No.10163685 >>10160267 Correct >>10162306 >Decameron >Plays and poems

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 21:43:11 2017 No.10163697 >'Murica Poe Ambrose Bierce Hawthorne Melville Lovecraft

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 23:52:10 2017 No.10164262 A R A B I A N R A B I A N N I G H T S I G H T S

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 00:46:03 2017 No.10164401 >>10163685 >>Decameron Who mentioned Decameron in those posts?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 01:35:54 2017 No.10164521 In addition to some of the others mentioned, I recommend: Ann Beattie Carver F'OC Richard Yates Turgenev Alejandro Zambra Adam Johnson David Gates Murakami's recent collection is good as well.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 01:38:47 2017 No.10164527 >>10164401 hes probably a pseud who thought petrarch wrote Deca

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