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Best short story ever written. Thoughts?


I have a tie, between Kafka's Before The Law and Vonnegut's 2BR02B.

>> No.1182333

How Much Land Does A Man Need, Tolstoy

>> No.1182334

Real Estate, by Lorrie Moore
The Beast in the Jungle, by Henry James
A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Flannery O'Connor

>> No.1182340

>>1182333

Oh shit, I forgot about that one. It has to be a three-way tie then.

>> No.1182353

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Hemingway

>> No.1183883

Jeffty is Five.

>> No.1183887

>posting anything that isn't by Borges

You guys are joking, right?

>> No.1183891

>>1183887
they best short stores not most overrated

>> No.1183895

>>1182328
Really Vor dem Gesetz? That's your big pick? okay, whatever gets you off i guess.

>> No.1184150

You guys, OP just meant "favorite." My favorite is 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman.

>>1183883
What do you think of the ending?

>> No.1184171

Personally I loved The Bosom-Serpent by Nathaniel Hawthorne

>> No.1184180

>>1182328
Do parables even constitute as short stories?

>> No.1184193

The Jaunt by King

>> No.1184201

>>1184150

One of the few stories that made me cry.

But the last line was complete shit. Maudlin and unnecessary.

>> No.1184214

Favorite short story (AND THIS IS THE 100th TIME I HAVE POSTED IT ON /lit/ SO SORRY IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SEEN IT GUYS): The Man Who Lost The Sea, by Ted Sturgeon.

http://strangehorizons.com/2009/20090413/lostsea-f.shtml

>> No.1184216

The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas.

/thread

>> No.1184252

Lovecraft: Memory
Ashton Smith: The Seven Geases
Dick: The Short Happy oh fuck it all of PKD

>> No.1184264

>Before the Law

The Judgment is better.

>> No.1184274

dunno if it's the best but my favourite is Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Light is Like Water"

it's beautiful :]

>> No.1184551

THIS CAN ALSO INCLUDE NOVELLAS!

>> No.1184552

Hemingway: Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Ellison: I have no mouth and I must scream

>> No.1184556

The Dead

>> No.1184563

"Knock" By Fredrick Brown

>> No.1184569

"The Lady with the Dog" by Chekhov

>> No.1184570

>>1184264

I've only read BTL and The Metamorphisis, but I really enjoy Kafka. I'll have to check The Judgement out.

>> No.1184571

Joyce's The Dead is extremely indisputable....
everyone in it, including Dublin itself is, in fact, DEAD


I MEAN COME ON

>> No.1184580

Funes the Memorious by Borges.

>> No.1184620

A HERO OF OUR TIME

IF IT COUNTS

>> No.1184635

Doom: Repercussions of Evil, by Peter Chimaera

>> No.1184651

>>1183887
the library of Babel

there

>> No.1184688

Kafka's Metamorphosis
/thread

>> No.1184727

The Lady with the Toy Dog by Anton Chekhov

Masterfully written work.

>> No.1184733

>>1184727
AWESOME, ANOTHER TO LOOK FORWARD TO

>> No.1184739

Harrison Bergeron

>> No.1184740

>>1182328
Deutsches Requiem, By Borges.
Las Ruinas Circulares, by Borges.
Tlön, Uqbar y Orbis Tertius, by Borges.
El Zahir, by Borges.
La Casa de Asterion, by Borges.
ANYthing by Borges.
Borges is a beast.

>> No.1184754

>>1184216
Read this in 11th grade in high school. Pretty fucking weird story at first. I will agree though.
*brofist*

>> No.1184968

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. This includes novellas, right?

>> No.1184980

>>1184968
YES, IT DOES

>> No.1184982

James Joyce - Araby
Thomas Ligotti - The Bungalow House
Edgar Allan Poe - The Masque Of The Red Death

>> No.1184984

Either In the Penal Colony, The Metamorphosis, or The Burrow by Kafka.

>> No.1184987

The Golden Pot by ETA Hoffmann

>> No.1184989

>>1184982
Come on, Araby isn't even the best story in Dubliners.

>> No.1184991

>>1184989
I like it. Also I think these rankings are pretty stupid anyway, literature is art not a sport.

>> No.1185001

ulyssess lololol
srsly tho, I am a huge fan of beckett's 'first love'. it's often referred to as a novella in critical texts, but shit's only about 30 pages.

>> No.1185005

>>1185001
TURGENEV'S 'FIRST LOVE' > BECKETT'S

>> No.1185016

ok, but overall beckett>turgenev?

>> No.1185031

>>1185016
NOT SURE, HAVEN'T READ ENOUGH OF EITHER TO MAKE A JUST CHOICE.

>> No.1185035

Jorge Luis Borges, "The Secret Miracle".
Flannery O'Connor, "Good Country People".
Madison Smartt Bell, "The Naked Lady".
Thom Jones, "The White Horse".
Norman Spinrad, "Carcinoma Angels".

>> No.1185039

I'm not a big reader. I'm actually trying to read more now that I've started college. I just read "Before The Law" and "2BR02B". Anyone out there care to explain the meaning of either of these? I'm not good at interpreting =[
>>1182328

>> No.1185044

before the law is better as a set piece in the trial.
it reminds me of his 'the watch man' and 'on parables'
however, I'm currently putting together shiz for my Dphil, and cannot recommend enough that you do your own leg work.

>> No.1185062

>>1185044
THESE THREADS DEPRESS ME, EVERY TIME AFTER ONE I READ A LOT OF THE NOVELLAS/SHORT STORIES NOTED AND FEEL LIKE I'M FINALLY GET THEM OUT OF THE WAY.

THEN A MONTH OR SO LATER, ANOTHER THREAD IS POSTED, AND THE CYCLE REPEATS ITSELF :(

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>> No.1185093

>>1185090
It's about Russia, I hear.

>> No.1185100

hmm... I am never able to pick my "favorites" out of books. There's just too damn many good ones.
Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banafish",
or Hemingway, "Snow of Kilimanjaro"
or something by Lovecraft.
Or maybe Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".