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For me it's Star diaries by Lem

>> No.17329877

>>17329593
Ficciones or Complete Kafka

>> No.17329886
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read this this week and was amazed by it. catcher in the rye was fine, but Salinger was born to write short stories

>> No.17331167

>>17329593
The Aleph

>> No.17331226

>>17329886
Based Teddy

>> No.17331463

>>17329593
That's been on my list for a while but I already have enough sci-fi to go through. What should I expect?

>> No.17331469

>>17331167
Borges FTW

>> No.17331472

>>17329593
the illustrated man

>> No.17331478

>>17329593
Dubliners

>> No.17331486

>>17329593
BASED LEM

>> No.17332261

>>17331226
Did he wrote anything good besides those two?

>> No.17332270

>>17329886
For me, it's De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period

>> No.17332283

Gogol's Petersburg Tales

Several of the greatest short stories of all time, what more could you need?

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Welcome to the Monkey House -or- Based Vonnegut promotes rape

>> No.17332345

>>17332312
As if that's unique. All male authors promote rape, because all males have a desire to rape. Men only pretend to dislike rape to dupe gullible "straight" women into sleeping with them: tricking them into sex they don't really want - rape.

>> No.17332655

>>17332345
This is /lit/ not /pol/, you should work on your trolling skills.

>> No.17332888

>>17329593
for me it's The Aleph

>> No.17332898

The complete Poe/Lovecraft

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>>17329593
Not even the best short story collection by Lem desu senpai

>> No.17333469

Lem is great at short stories but I think I love Akutagawa even more.
Lem is verbose and can get bogged down in his autistic technobabble, which is the point. Akutagawa simply has better style and structures stories better, even being the philosophical inferior.

>> No.17333473

>>17333462
Haven't read Star Diaries but the Cyberiad was great. However between Akutagawa and Cyberiad, Cyberiad has more complex themes which makes it less iconic than the brevity of Akutagawa.

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Does Ovid's Metamorphoses count? I feel like it should. If we want to be technical and limit it to being an epic, then I'll go with pic related selections of Steinbeck.

>> No.17333799

>>17329593
The first one had me howling.

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Todos los Fuegos el Fuego by Cortázar
Ficciones by Borges
Caza de Conejos by Levrero
Trois Contes by Flaubert
Dubliners by Joyce
Pic related by Calvino

>> No.17333839

>>17331463
A mix of some fun and wacky stories and others with high concepts and deep philosophy.

>> No.17333886

>>17329877
I have a complete collection of all Kafka’s published work and I couldn’t believe how awful the Meditations were.

>> No.17334066

Interesting thread ; bump

>> No.17334341

Peter Carey if you'd enjoy surrealist parables

>> No.17335547

Star by Yukio Mishima.

>> No.17336257

>>17333462
This one is still ahead of me desu, but I like his surreal stuff too, so I guess I will like it. Where would you put tales of Pirx the pilot?

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