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What are your favourite short stories?

Links are appreciated too.

>> No.2034609

Kafka is my waifu:

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/jul/01/message-emperor-new-translation/

>> No.2034612

The Pit and the Pendulum

>> No.2034615

http://users.pop.umn.edu/~matt0350/images/forumcrap/october/scream.pdf

I read this the other day, I don't read much. It was alright :\

>> No.2034620

I read a lot of sci-fi short stories, it's the perfect format for those weird concepts that aren't quite enough to sustain a novel. A few favourites off the top of my head are...

Lot - Ward Moore
What Can Replace a Man? - Brian Aldiss
The Author of the Acacia Seeds - Ursula Le Guin

>> No.2034626

http://www.bearparade.com/hikikomori/

It includes a special guest appearance of another short story, too!

>> No.2034628

Why don't we use the established short story thread?
>>2034105
Look past page 0 people.

>> No.2034633

>>2034628
Those are dead conversations dude. You can't just bring them up out of nowhere.

>> No.2034637

>>2034633
Plus this is already a better thread, and capsguy isn't here.

>> No.2034640

http://www.ciudadseva.com/bibcuent.htm

dont thank me

>> No.2034644

>>2034640

Oh my gahd. The opening of A Portrait of the Artist in Spanish is amazing.

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TOO MANY TO LIST SO I WILL NARROW THE SELECTION TO ONE PARTICULAR AUTHOR.

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER MY FAVORITE SHORT STORIES BY JEROME DAVID SALINGER ARE:

>"A PERFECT DAY FOR BANANAFISH".
>"TEDDY".
>"BLUE MELODY".
>"LAST DAY OF THE LAST FURLOUGH".
>"THE STRANGER".
>"THE HEART OF A BROKEN STORY".
>"THE INVERTED FOREST".
>"THE VARIONI BROTHERS".
>"DE DAUMIER SMITH'S BLUE PERIOD".
>"FOR ESMÉ: WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR".

"FOR ESMÉ: WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR" IS MY FAVORITE SHORT STORY BY JEROME DAVID SALINGER.

>> No.2034651

>>2034648

You are neglecting Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut, though, For Esme is great.

>> No.2034654

What You Pawn I Will Redeem by Sherman Alexie. I'm surprised nobody's made a film out of this yet.

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>>2034651

I DID NOT IDENTIFIED NOR SYMPATHIZED WITH THE CHARACTERS IN THAT STORY. EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE.

>> No.2034657

>>2034655
why are you typing in caps?

and Salinger is my favorite too

>> No.2034661

>>2034655

Okay. I mean, that is fine, but, to me, it is a particularly tragic story. Sure, it is the woman's fault somewhat that she is in her situation, but it is still tragic -- she lost her husband and married another out of fear, almost. And Salinger writes her love so well. But, whatever lifts your skirt up.

>> No.2034663

>>2034657

You clearly do not frequent this board. Capsguy just writes in caps. He is not mad or yelling, but just chooses to.

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>>2034661

SO IS THAT YOUR FAVORITE SHORT STORY FROM JEROME DAVID SALINGER?

>>2034663

I AM NOT CAPSGUY. IT JUST HAPPENS THAT WE BOTH TYPE IN CAPITAL LETTERS. I WRITE IN CAPITAL LETTERS TOO. I WRITE AND TYPE IN CAPITAL LETTERS BECAUSE I LIKE CAPITAL LETTERS AESTHETICALLY AND I SLIGHTLY DISLIKE TYPING AND WRITING IN "LOWER CASE" LETTERS.

>> No.2034687

>>2034663

yeah I admit that I'm not a regular member here. My favorite story from Salinger would have to be Teddy.

>> No.2034693

>>2034674

I don't think that I could really decide. For Esme is a really great story as-well, don't get me wrong, but I have always been attached to Uncle Wiggly. I have read all that he has published in books, but none of his stories that were published individually in The New Yorker or other publications. In a way, Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour -- an Introduction is a pair of short stories (they were published individually, originally), and, if I could choose them, I would. Seymour -- an Introduction is fanfuckingtastic, transcendent. I really love that story so much. So, perhaps I would choose that, though it appreciates much being paired with Raise High.

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JEROME DAVID SALINGER'S STORIES ARE STUNNING. I SHED THREE TEARS BY THE END OF "FOR ESMÉ: WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR".

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>>2034693

I ALWAYS IMAGINE SEYMOUR GLASS WITH THE APPEARANCE OF LUKE WILSON. LUKE WILSON EVEN LOOKS LIKE JEROME DAVID SALINGER.

>> No.2034738

The Hunger Artist, I think.

>> No.2034747

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn0lhsXHEhc
I love future shorts.

>> No.2034774

Un Coeur Simple, by Flaubert. In the original French.