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/lit/ I am ever so distressed that there are such fantastic short stories out there and people have not read them yet.

Here is an outstanding super short story by Vladimir Nabokov that I heard and then subsequently read. It drives me to lengths reading it. It is titled Signs and Symbols.

Read it here:
http://www.angelynngrant.com/nabokov.html

Listen to it here:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/06/09/080609on_audio_gaitskill


Also feel free to post any outstanding short stories you have found in your journeys.

This picture should relate how I felt reading it

>> No.1878782

Here is Borges' Gospel according to Mark

http://anagrammatically.com/2008/03/09/borges-gospel-according-to-mark/

It is super short and well written ofcourse

>> No.1878786

i don't think this is the whole thing? I'm also looking for it online and can't find it...is this really Nabokov?

>> No.1878791

>>1878769
Painful, yet beautiful, story.

It is sad that short fiction's going extinct. Hard to believe that not that long ago Vonnegut was getting published in Cosmopolitan. There's just no market for it anymore.

>> No.1878790

>>1878786

Yes that is the whole thing. It was published as a short story in the New yorker

>> No.1878801

Here is A&P by John Updike

http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/

>> No.1878825

>>1878782
Chilling, in a way. I was wondering where it was going for a bit, but I was pleasantly rewarded for persistence.

>> No.1878830

>>1878825

Not.. Long... Now

This really resonated

>> No.1878835

>>1878830
"When they opened it, he saw the heavens." was perfection, to me. I don't know that I'm awake enough to read all of the Updike story.

>> No.1878837

>>1878835

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2011/05/23/110523on_audio_goodman

Here. Listen to it as you fall asleep

>> No.1878872

>>1878782
that's so good!

>> No.1878886

>>1878837
The introductory conversation was dreadfully pedestrian, but the story was wonderful.

It actually reminded me of when I quit my job at Walmart when I was 18 years old because they had just began the process of finding bullshit reasons to fire employees who had been with the company for years and then replacing them with entry-level minimum wage folk.

They fired a man who had been with them for twelve years, who had a family to support. He earned every penny he had made at that job. So, I wrote a formal letter of resignation that outlined what I thought could help improve the store, what they were already doing well and my misgivings about their firings.

Wound up getting into a long-winded shouting match with the store manager when he read it. Then he called my manager in to read what I had written(it praised him specifically), and told him to take me into the HR office to sign the exit paperwork.

When we got into the office, he turned around and hugged me. Told me he had so much respect for what I did, and that no one had ever talked to the store manager like that. Was a good day, and I have never, ever regretted it. Very different from Updike's story in detail, but I felt a kinship in spirit.

I appreciate the links.

>> No.1878891

Here is a very nice but sad story by Cheever.

http://shortstoryclassics.50megs.com/cheeverswimmer.html

>> No.1879019

bump

>> No.1879030

>>1878886
Genuinely cool story, bro.

>> No.1879051

Thanks for this thread OP!

>> No.1879055

well, here's a random passage my now deceased mother wrote when she was fifteen. i found it today and have had the immediate desire to share it with others.


it is titled 'magical people':

When darkness falls and all mortal beings are at rest, another community comes to life. Hidden in a blanket of green dance the fairies; frolicking in the spring moonlight. They are adorned with exquisitely beautiful gowns made from the glistening dew which the elves have been gathering since sunset. Their long flowing hair ripples in time with the heat of the dance. Dandelion drums and the shrill, haunting melody of bark pipes make the instinct to dance irresistible. The stage is a sea of daisies and the feet of the fairies provide so light a touch that the clock-faced flowers remain intact; enjoying the soft and gentle caress of magical people.

>> No.1879058

>>1879055
melancholy :3

>> No.1879066

I needed this thread.

Thank you /lit/ for being a good board.

>> No.1879093

http://www.scaryforkids.com/kaleidoscope-by-ray-bradbury/

kaleidoscope by ray bradbury, my favorite short story

>> No.1879714

http://www.daily-pulp.com/literature/first-love/

Here is another Nabokov for you /lit/

>> No.1879742

>>1879714
Strad, you are legitimately my favorite tripfag.

>> No.1879755

>brownbear posts lit related essays, anon says it's shit an unrelated
>strad posts short stories, praised as a god

Politest of sages as this is offtopic. Feel free to continue your thread.

>> No.1879758

Here is a .zip with a few great Japanese children's stories in it, for anyone who might be interested:

http://www.mediafire.com/?vfcqs801mx29hzz

It has:
>Run, Melos! by Osamu Dazai
>The Restaurant of Many Orders by Kenji Miyazawa
>The Earthgod and the Fox by Kenji Miyazawa

All of them are perfectly enjoyable by adults! I'm going to try and add more to it eventually.

>> No.1879805

This one is a little longer but is fabulous.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2011/01/24/110124on_audio_als

>> No.1879812

>>1879755
it's probably because stradloser has never ever said anything vaguely controversial ever on this board

>> No.1879824
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>>1879812
I'm fine with this. We have more than enough folks on here posting "controversial" things meant to get a rise out of someone else.

>> No.1879829

>>1879812
D&E is like the advice dog meme and all its 9000 mutations.

Far too played out and should have ended ages ago.

>> No.1879833

>>1879829
implying the advice dog meme had a fantastic grasp of philosophy lol

>> No.1879835

Ok enough silliness.


Here is a nice Kipling story.

http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2462/

>> No.1879837

>>1879833
> implying anything done 9000 times a day is funny, interesting or insightful

ok brownhole

>> No.1879860

tom what happened to you now youre just a brown nose

>> No.1879863
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1879863

"The Erl-King" by Angela Carter - some of the best prose I've ever read, absolutely beautiful:

http://www.angelfire.com/crazy4/lesadoreyl/carter_bloody_chamber.html#the_erl-king

And on that page there's a whole book of her short stories.

>> No.1879889

This short story is mindblowing. It's by E. L. Doctorow (a truly great writer) and it's composed entirely of dialogue. Just read it and see how well he does it.

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/04/26/100426fi_fiction_doctorow

>> No.1879912

>>1879860
A lot has changed.

>> No.1879945

http://www.dibache.com/text.asp?cat=51&id=2741

Here is a nice Kate Chopin story

>> No.1880770

Here is Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut by J.D.Salinger

http://www.dibache.com/text.asp?cat=51&id=2117

>> No.1881353

I hope for more short stories.

>> No.1881360

I've never really cared for short stories
The better they are the more pissed i am when they are over so quick.
I just like the long term immersion of long as fuck tomes

>> No.1881422

>>1881360

I like them both. A short story's kinda like a single entree in how I can appreciate the story all at once in one sitting, while novels are the full 7 courses and regale me in a continuous and multifaceted tale.

>> No.1881471

GOT TO KEEP MAKING ANONS READ THE RED LAUGH

KIND OF VERGING ON NOVELETTE LENGTH, BUT OH WELL!

http://www.amalgamatedspooks.com/red.htm

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1881656

>mfw I try to listen to the Nabokov (mfw that's how you say it) story and it's a female so I turn it off

>> No.1881671

>>1881656

She has wonderful pacing. Especially during the special parts of the story.

Worst case, you can always read it yourself via the other link.

>> No.1881708

>>1881671
I did just finish reading it. It's the only thing I've ever read by Nabokov and I liked it well enough. Thank you for sharing; I'm going to be reading most of the things posted in this thread.

Maybe I'll give listening a try... I dislike female voices and I was never one for audio books anyhow. I hate the sticking sounds of saliva and tongues and lips and breathing recorded on tape. It's so much more obvious than in real life.

>> No.1881715

>>1881708

Read or listen to the Borges story "Gospel according to Mark"

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/10/15/071015on_audio_theroux

The audio one is superb. And it is Paul Theroux voicing it.

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1881737

>>1881715
Oh captain, my captain

>> No.1881776

>>1881715
wow, that was great

>> No.1881985

>>1881715
i didn't get it.

>> No.1881986

>>1881985
they thought he was jesus because he did stuff that was like jesus in gospels. and they were uneducated like all religious people.don't know why they let him fuck that woman though

>> No.1882003

>>1881737
Captain, oh my oh.

>> No.1883512

We must have more

Here is an Updike short tale:

http://members.multimania.co.uk/shortstories/updikepigeonfeathers.html

>> No.1883546

Here is a wonderful Aldous Huxley short I found on the same site. It is wonderful really.

Nuns at Luncheon
http://members.multimania.co.uk/shortstories/huxleynuns.html

>> No.1884571

http://www.dibache.com/text.asp?cat=51&id=1868

The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges

>> No.1884582

People Like That Are the Only People Here by Lorrie Moore

http://jordansebastianbonner.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Moore.pdf

>> No.1885236

Bump

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1886124

Here is a Roberto Bolano short for you:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/08/08/050808fi_fiction_bolano?printable=true

because you are so super, /lit/

>> No.1886137

http://www.mutantfrog.com/patriotism-by-yukio-mishima/

Patriotism by Yukio Mishima

>> No.1886147

Some Daniil Kharms short stories:

http://www.sevaj.dk/kharms/kharmseng.htm

>> No.1886152

>>1886137
Is that sriq? If so, I'm trying to figure out some of that pdf to txt thing for getting hell screen on the go

>> No.1886153

http://www.misanthropytoday.com/cathedral-by-raymond-carver-weekend-short-story/
Cathedral by Raymond Carver

>> No.1886165

>>1886152
Yep, it's me! OCR stuff? I have no clue about all that, honestly. I was just uploading hueg .pdf's, which is probably not good. If you figure it out let me know though! I tried asking /g/ once but they didn't really give me any info.

>> No.1886171

>>1886165
OCR apparently can change a .pdf to a .txt which obviously will reduce the size of the file and make it better suited for an e-reader too.
If you have a scanner you might already be able to do this depending on the model, using the adobe thing that can put together .pdf's in the first place.
Anyway, just google around for a few that work on whatever OS you're using and give it a try

>> No.1886484

bump

>> No.1887331

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/10/01/071001fi_fiction_bolano?printable=true

THE INSUFFERABLE GAUCHO
by Roberto Bolaño

>> No.1887738

I posted this in another thread already but here you go:

The Southern Thruway - Julio Cortazar

latinamericanshortstories.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/disasters-session-cortazars-the-southern-thruway/

>> No.1888446

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/11/26/071126fi_fiction_bolano?printable=true

ÁLVARO ROUSSELOT’S JOURNEY
by Roberto Bolaño

>>1887331

I will read this right now.