Great Short Story Collections?

[Anonymous No.20717721]

Hi guys,

I haven't read much fiction in a quite a while, but I always loved short stories. I'm familiar with Borges, de Maupassant, Flannery O'Connor, and Dostoevsky. I'm looking to expand my horizons a bit. I can also read in German and Spanish if any writers in those languages come to mind.

Thanks.

[Anonymous No.20717727]

>>20717721
Horacio Quiroga and Leopoldo Lugones have some really good short stories.

[Anonymous No.20718290]

Cortázar comes to mind

[Anonymous No.20718299]

calvino, chekhov, lucia berlin, breece d'j pancake, carver, lydia davis

[Anonymous No.20718930]

Akutagawa and that one book by Kawabata.

[Anonymous No.20718973]

>>20717721
Alejo Carpentier

[Anonymous No.20719053]

>>20717721
W. Somerset Maugham

[Anonymous No.20719202]

>>20717721
And don't forget /lit/'s own home grown hero and master of the short story...

[Anonymous No.20719521]

>>20717721
Main Traveled Roads by Hamlin Garland. It was a series of obscure short stories written in the 1890s about rural life out in the mid-west.

Each story follows a different character somewhere on the old highway between the east and west, and they’re well-written and very “human” stories. It’s been a little while since I’ve read it, but I remember one being about an older couple losing their farm, one about young love, and one about soldiers returning from war finding their home different from how they left it. There’s I think 5 or 6 short stories and they were all wonderful. Some end happily but not all.

[Anonymous No.20719600]

>>20717721
I love Saki. "If P. G. Wodehouse was an edgelord" is how I would describe him. Here is the opening paragraph of "Mrs. Packletide's Tiger" which is pretty representative of his writing:

It was Mrs. Packletide's pleasure and intention that she should shoot a tiger. Not that the lust to kill had suddenly descended on her, or that she felt that she would leave India safer and more wholesome than she had found it, with one fraction less of wild beast per million of inhabitants. The compelling motive for her sudden deviation towards the footsteps of Nimrod was the fact that Loona Bimberton had recently been carried eleven miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator, and talked of nothing else; only a personally procured tiger-skin and a heavy harvest of press photographs could successfully counter that sort of thing. Mrs. Packletide had already arranged in her mind the lunch she would give at her house in Curzon Street, ostensibly in Loona Bimberton's honour, with a tiger-skin rug occupying most of the foreground and all of the conversation. She had also already designed in her mind the tiger-claw brooch that she was going to give Loona Bimberton on her next birthday. In a world that is supposed to be chiefly swayed by hunger and by love Mrs. Packletide was an exception; her movements and motives were largely governed by dislike of Loona Bimberton.

[Anonymous No.20719969]

>>20719600
>"If P. G. Wodehouse was an edgelord"
I don't know which is worse, the terrible characterization of Saki or quoting yourself doing it.

[Anonymous No.20720445]

Alice munro

[Anonymous No.20720647]

>>20718299
>someone else on /lit/ likes Lydia Davis
This is a good day.

[Anonymous No.20720724]

>>20717721
Juan Rulfo has a story collection, El Llano en Llamas
Gabriel García Márquez also has a collection of short stories, they’re pretty nice.
José Emilio Pacheco has one as well, and a few short novels that you could check as well. They’re pretty short.


And you can read the best of the best, The Decameron