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Can you guys recommend me some good short stories? I already read everything by pic related but he’s a bit too simbolic for my taste.

>> No.19197621

>>19197615
Nine Stories by Salinger

>> No.19197627

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

>> No.19197640

>>19197621
Salinger is very symbolic too. If OP didn’t like Hemingway, I doubt he would like Salinger even though he’s one of the best IMO

>> No.19197647

Chekhov - The Bet

>> No.19197652

>>19197621
>>19197627
Read both of these. My favourite by Salinger was The laughing man.

>> No.19197665

>>19197640
What do you mean by symbolic? Anything worth a shit is a bit symbolic. Even fairy tales are symbolic. I suppose he could read stuff like PKD's stories or Katherine Mansfield's.

>> No.19197690

Billy Budd, Bartleby the Scrivener

>> No.19197745

>>19197647
>>19197690
Gonna check these out

>> No.19197763

>>19197745
Also The Gambler by Dostoevsky is pretty fun. Surprisingly light (for Dosto).

>> No.19197797

>>19197763
I’m looking only for short stories (max 30 pages). The gambler is more of a novella.

>> No.19197838

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

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>>19197615
this guy

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>>19197615
Also if you haven't already you need to read the short stories of W. Somerset Maugham.
Dude was a genius who doesn't get the recognition he deserves on /lit/

>> No.19198952

>>19198942
Just want to piggyback off this and say Of Human Bondage is great and it’s a shame it’s not read too often on lit. I think Anons would like it

>> No.19198957

alice munro and lydia davis both write great short stories

>> No.19198973
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This

>> No.19198981

>>19198973
carver is so incredible
him and chekhov are the endgame of short stories for me

>> No.19198986

Piazza Tales - Melville
Twice-told Tales - Hawthorne
Mosses From an Old Manse - Hawthorne
The Complete Tales - HP Lovecraft
The Complete Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
THE SKETCH BOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT. - Washington Irving
BRACEBRIDGE HALL - Washington Irving
TALES OF A TRAVELLER - Washington Irving
TALES OF THE ALHAMBRA - Washington Irving
THE CRAYON MISCELLANY- Washington Irving
WOLFERT’S ROOST- Washington Irving
Nine Stories- JD Salinger
The Complete Tales - Joseph Conrad
The Complete Shorter Fiction - Thackeray
Chronicles of Canongate - Walter Scott
The Keepsake Stories - Walter Scott
Prince Zaleski (1895) - MP Shiel
Shapes in the Fire (1896) - MP Shiel
SELECT CONVERSATIONS WITH AN UNCLE - HG Wells
THE STOLEN BACILLUS AND OTHER INCIDENTS- HG Wells
THE PLATTNER STORY AND OTHERS- HG Wells
TALES OF SPACE AND TIME- HG Wells
TWELVE STORIES AND A DREAM- HG Wells
THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND AND OTHER STORIES- HG Wells
THE DOOR IN THE WALL AND OTHER STORIES- HG Wells
A Tangled Tale - Lewis Carroll
Complete Stories - Tolstoy
Complete Stories - Dostoevsky
Complete Stories - Henry James
1897 Siesta - Hamsun
1903 Kratskog - Hamsun
Complete Stories - John Updike
Complete Stories - Nabokov
Complete Stories - Jack London

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I forgot to say George Saunders. He's so good.

>> No.19199024

>>19197690
Billy Budd is a novella and why wouldn't you just recommend the entire Piazza Tales when Melville re-worked it, so all the stories would fit in with each other.

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I loved this
His later collection of short stories left me cold though. It was like listening to some guy giving you a verbose history of his psychoanalysis.

>> No.19199453

>>19199024
Shut it, pedant.

>> No.19200598

>>19197615
Sixty Stories - Donald Barthelme
everything Gary Lutz ever wrote, especially Stories in the Worst Way

>> No.19200836

>>19197615
Drifting - Quiroga

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>>19197615
The Conductor and Other Tales by Jean Ferry (his only published work of fiction, mainly being a French screen-writer).

This collection is like an exquisite box of chocolates. You will struggle to not eat every delectable piece at once. Only recently published in English for the first time by Wakefield Press. Enjoy

>> No.19200902

>>19200598
I love "Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby" and "The Bodyguard" by Barthelme. Really fun stories that I often compare to Murakami's best like Barn Burning and The Second Bakery Attack.

any others you rec by him?

>> No.19200908

>>19197838
The titular story of Cathedral by Carver is so damn good it makes me hard, unironically.

>> No.19200913
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Just in time for Halloween.

The Jaunt by King

yeah, yeah, I know, King is a hack, but just read the bloody thing

>> No.19201043

>>19198937
Oh man I remember this guy posting here
It's not you is it?

>> No.19201216

Everything Akutagawa ever wrote

>> No.19201224

>>19197838
Wonderful post. Cathedral is so good that it almost redeems the rest of Carvers mundane output. Flanner O'Connor is tremendous as well.

>> No.19201227

>>19197615
anything by Samuel Beckett

>> No.19201230

>>19198981
Don't forget that Carver is good in large part because of how good Gordon Lish was at editing him.

>>19199012
Title story in that collection is a jaw-dropper (moreso than the more obvious ones like Semplica Girls IMO).

>> No.19201236

Hue and Cry by James McPherson is good, especially "Gold Coast" which is just terrific.

>> No.19201274

>>19197615
based stalinist

>> No.19201419

>>19197615
Chekhov - Lady with the Toy Dog
Maupassant - The Necklace
Kawabata - The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket
Melville - Bartleby the Scrivener
Joyce - Araby

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>>19197615
John O'Hara, the best short story writer of all time. He's Hemingway approved.

>> No.19201502

>>19197615
Mishima has some great short stories. Dramatic and beautiful

>> No.19201575

>>19197615
Pancakes Breece
Ambrose Bierce
Kafka
Decameron
Nabokov's shorts

>> No.19202333

>>19197615
The Red Crown
A Young Doctor's Notebook

>> No.19202419

i dunno what /lit/ thinks of him since ive never seen him mentioned before but i love ted chiangs work, especially the "Exhalation" collection but "the story of your life and others" was great as well

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His novels were airport tier but he was a very good short story writer