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Let's have a thread about the best short stories out there.

Your opinions and what the themes of these short stories are.

Mine may be quite generic but 'A Clean Well Lighted Place' by Hemingway really takes the cake.

The beautiful aspect of the darker human who only dwells during the night appeals greatly to a lot of people, myself included.

>> No.1521867

It's great, but I like "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" better.

>> No.1521883

>>1521867
I haven't read that one. I have his compilation of short stories right here. I might just read that.

>> No.1521891

inb4 The Lottery, because only newfags like that story.

>>1521867

Seconded. Such a good piece for jaded writers.

>> No.1521910

I think Hemingway's craft, and his laconic style, which I found so wearing and affected over the course of a novel, was actually better suited to short stories.

When I was a kid I read some very excellent, very cruel short stories by someone called Saki. Anyone?

>> No.1521918

I liked Hemingway's A Way You'll Never Be and some of the short stories he wrote about the first War. On the Quay at Smyrna and others like that.

>> No.1521926

Entry-level, I know, but it's stuck with me for years.

Isaac Asimov - The Last Question

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

>> No.1521927

>>1521883
I have his complete collection of shorts as well. I'm going to look all the ones people say for Hemmingway up.

Anyways, I'm a huge fan of Bananafish. That's my vote.

>> No.1521933

The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat by Poe are classics, but probably entry level

>> No.1521946

He by Katherine Anne Porter
A Very Short Story by Hemingway
Flannery O'Connor: Everything That Rises Must Converge, Revelation (supremely underrated imo), and A Good Man Is Hard to Find
And Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron: http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

>> No.1522013

>>1521927

Explain the appeal of Bananafish, please.

>> No.1522032

>>1522013
Much of Salinger's work is difficult to understand if you've never experienced the mania associated with Bipolar Disorder.

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1522231

I really liked "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", even though I haven't read many of Hemingway's short stories.

I liked Bananafish too, but I think "For Esme- with Love and Squalor" is just about at the same level for me.

And since no one has mentioned it, "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is another one of my favourites.

>> No.1522235

>>1521933
FUCK you. I HATE people who like The Tell-Tale Heart. It's BULLSHIT. It's fine, yeah, but it's no where fucking near his best and it doesn't deserve to be in every fucking middle AND high school text book. So another big, steamy FUCK YOU to you, sir. For being a FAGGOT.

But yeah, The Black Cat is awesome.

>> No.1522236

I'm reading a tome of J.G. Ballard short stories.
I'm only 5 stories in but he appeals strongly to a geek like me.

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1522860

"Mumu" by Ivan Turgenev is my favorite.

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1522873

"Mumu" by Ivan Turgenev is my favorite.

>>1522236
I really like his stories as well. Did you get the massive anthology published by Norton as well? I got the paperback as a holiday gift to myself. That guy was great.

>> No.1522874

For all you faggots dipping into Salinger--everyone knows "Teddy" is the best of the Nine Stories, and don't you forget it, ever.

>> No.1522899

>>1522873
THIS, OR THE RED LAUGH IF IT COUNTS

>> No.1522907

"the dream of a ridiculous man" dostoevsky


http://books.google.com/books?id=IB9_OePFQaUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22the+dream+of+a+ridic
ulous+man%22+dostoevsky&source=bl&ots=Zhe_Ie-QmJ&sig=9eVNk2WuXu_rvI8aXD2trFx7Y7g&hl=
en&ei=MfdMTbC9DIa0sAO38-nNCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEA
Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false

>> No.1522909

Roger Zelazny was the king of the short story.

For Breath I Tarry
This Mortal Mountain
The Man Who Loved the Faioli
A Rose For Ecclesiastes
etc

>> No.1522911

Fuckin' Borges!

"The Library of Babel," "The Garden of Forking Paths," and "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" are awesome and seem to me very good examples of metafiction.

Fuckin' O'Connor!

"Good Country People" is hilarious and "The Artificial Nigger" is surprisingly and darkly moving.

Fuckin' Heinlein!

"-All You Zombies-" is a classic sci-fi work.

>> No.1522930

>>1522907

oops, didn't realise google blacked some out

here's the full story, not as good a translation tho imo

http://www.ellopos.net/politics/dostoevsky-dream.asp

search it on google and there are some to download; maybe you can find the better translation