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Juan O. Sat Apr 6 12:46:14 2013 No.3632914 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /lit/, who's the greatest short stories writer ever?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 12:46:14 2013 No.3632916 Guy de Maupassant

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 12:47:14 2013 No.3632924 >>3632914 Chekhov

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 12:49:14 2013 No.3632932 File: 32 KB, 200x268, Nescio.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Nescio.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 12:50:14 2013 No.3632933 Leonid Andreyev

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 13:10:13 2013 No.3633031 Harlan Ellison is my favorite

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 13:10:14 2013 No.3633028 I enjoyed the absurdist/ surrealist short storys Jaroslav Krasnastravsky wrote while he was inprisoned in the gulags.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 13:11:13 2013 No.3633036 Why not Asimov?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 13:12:13 2013 No.3633039 Tao fucking Lin

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 13:25:13 2013 No.3633067 Vonnegut.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 13:27:13 2013 No.3633073 Mark Twain for sure

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 13:29:13 2013 No.3633078 >>3633031 his stuff is high octane nightmare fuel holy shit. I Have No Mouth and I Cannot Scream is by far my favorite story of his

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 13:29:13 2013 No.3633080 >>3633036 This

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 13:37:13 2013 No.3633101 H.P lovecraft

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 13:45:13 2013 No.3633111 Borges Akutagawa Ryunosuke

>>	None !!lZetafI6z8s Sat Apr 6 13:45:13 2013 No.3633113 >>3632916 This or Borges

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 13:48:13 2013 No.3633117 Hamilton P. Westshire.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 13:50:13 2013 No.3633120 Henry O dont know that the O stands for

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 14:10:13 2013 No.3633150 JCO

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 14:20:13 2013 No.3633169 Chekhov and Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 14:25:14 2013 No.3633177 File: 1.79 MB, 334x357, tizBP.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1.Chekhov 2.Balzac 3.Borges

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 14:34:13 2013 No.3633190 Borges

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 14:35:13 2013 No.3633193 Flannery O'Connor?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 14:39:13 2013 No.3633200 File: 435 KB, 1024x1324, H_P__Lovecraft_by_MirrorCradle.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] H.P. Lovecraft

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 14:53:13 2013 No.3633224 >>3633177 >>3633177 >no O Henry >no Tennessee Williams >no even Faulkner

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 15:07:13 2013 No.3633244 File: 2.08 MB, 400x226, 1358617103578.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3633224 mfw american lit

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 15:09:13 2013 No.3633247 File: 184 KB, 480x360, ixmhl.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3633224 faulkner? sure. o henry? sure. but williams? hahahahaha

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 15:10:13 2013 No.3633248 DFW

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 15:15:13 2013 No.3633254 It's gotta be Chekhov

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 15:18:13 2013 No.3633262 1. Kafka 2. Bradbury 3. Chandler 4. Amy Hempel

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 16:29:44 2013 No.3633437 >>3633262 >Amy Hempel who?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 16:35:44 2013 No.3633450 File: 185 KB, 548x657, amyhempel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3633437 pic related Queen of minimaists

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 16:48:44 2013 No.3633482 1. Kafka 2. Tolstoy 3. Cortázar

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 23:12:44 2013 No.3634759 File: 19 KB, 220x292, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] For me - Saki

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 23:23:44 2013 No.3634775 It's gotta be Borges

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 23:47:45 2013 No.3634802 >>3633078 And yet you don't know the title of the story. 'The Deathbird' is his masterpiece.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 23:49:44 2013 No.3634804 >>3634759 My nigga. I loved that story about the ferret and the kid who just wanted to eat some fucking toast with butter, but his governess wouldn't let him, so the ferret kills the bitch governess. I forget the name of it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 23:50:44 2013 No.3634806 >>3634804 Srendi Vashtar, mane.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 23:53:44 2013 No.3634814 File: 190 KB, 570x764, Revolutionary_Joyce_Better_Contrast.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] James Joyce Dubliners

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 00:04:46 2013 No.3634840 >>3633078 >high octane nightmare fuel pls go

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 00:20:44 2013 No.3634889 >Ctrl+f >"Donald Barthelme" >0 results step it up, /lit/ 1: Borges 2: Barthelme 3: Joyce 4: O'Connor 5: Checkov 6: Carver

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 00:22:44 2013 No.3634894 >>3633078 TVTropes pls go

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 01:14:45 2013 No.3635051 Tolstoy, by far.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 01:17:44 2013 No.3635061 >>3634889 this! I also enjoy the short stories of Faulkner, Kafka, and Fitzgerald. And also those of Bradbury

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 01:32:44 2013 No.3635098 ctrl+f Poe no Poe wtf, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 01:35:45 2013 No.3635104 Flannery O'Connor hands down. A Good Man is Hard to FInd among others. The more you read it the more you get out of it. Good for a discussion with friends.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 01:51:44 2013 No.3635123 Am I banned?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 02:30:45 2013 No.3635172 dont forget gogol >dat nevsky prospekt, diary of a madman and the over coat

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 02:55:44 2013 No.3635199 >>3634814 This. I know this thread died some time ago, but The Dead is a phenomenal story. Reading the ending is like being punched in the gut.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 02:58:44 2013 No.3635205 >>3635123 yes anon you are banned

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 03:05:45 2013 No.3635212 Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 03:14:45 2013 No.3635216 >>3633224 We are talking about the BEST not about your fucking american favorites.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 05:44:45 2013 No.3635337 File: 938 KB, 1024x680, Cheever.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] John Cheever

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 05:51:45 2013 No.3635340 >>3635199 Agree. A lot of the stories in Dubliners are good, but The Dead is probably my favourite short story. I also like Hills Like White Elephants by Hemingway.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 12:03:45 2013 No.3635854 >>3635340 Should I read the stories in order? Picked up a copy for 2 euro months ago and haven't read it yet.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 12:06:45 2013 No.3635859 Borges or Cortazar.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 12:29:45 2013 No.3635882 Borges

Anonymous Sun Apr 7 13:03:45 2013 No.3635930

>>3635854
Different person from >>3635340 but I''ll answer your question.

Nah you don't need to read them in order. There are some really meh ones in there imo, so don't give up too soon because some of them are REALLY great. You should probably not read The Dead before reading a few others, because it's so good it'll probably ruin the rest of the book for you, that's why in all the editions I've seen it's the last story :p

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 13:10:45 2013 No.3635939 >>3635930 thanks

Anonymous Sun Apr 7 13:28:46 2013 No.3635962
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I have a few favourite stories, rather than a favourite writer.

>James Joyce
'Araby'

>Anton Chekhov
'On Official Business'

>Delmore Schwartz
'In Dreams Begin Responsibilities'

>Jorge Luis Borges
'The Garden of Forking Paths'

>F. Scott Fitzgerald
'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'

>Guy de Maupassant
'Mademoiselle Fifi'

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 13:32:45 2013 No.3635968 Borges

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 13:47:45 2013 No.3635995 Stephen King

Anonymous Sun Apr 7 17:56:54 2013 No.3636476

>>3635859
Cortizar is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and i wish more people would talk abut him on here.

However, even though overall i suppose his shortstories are best, Hopscotch/Rayuela is a goddamn masterpiece of the highest calibier. It's right up there with Gravity's Rainbow, Ulysses, Mason & Dixon, Beckett's trilogy, Catch 22, and Infinite Jest as the great novels of the 20th century.

Damnit now I'm gonna read hopscotch again instead of working on my thesis.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 18:01:45 2013 No.3636488 Chekhov, Antonin

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 18:03:45 2013 No.3636493 Salinger, Jerome David

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 18:03:45 2013 No.3636495 >>3632914 >Carrey thinks he can pull a Thewlis Lelusconi

Juan O. Sun Apr 7 23:42:45 2013 No.3637597
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>>3635098
Op here.

>Mfw no Poe >:C

Thanks for helping me, but if anyone can give me the story that make you think one writer is the best, I would be grateful for your comments.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 00:00:45 2013 No.3637641 >>3636495 >hasn't seen Eternal Sunshine

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 08:57:46 2013 No.3638288 File: 126 KB, 800x440, postliterature.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3637641 >hasn't seen Naked

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 08:58:46 2013 No.3638291 lit is bad

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