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Best short-story writers?

>> No.4082650

Chekhov

>> No.4082653

>>4082650
I second that.

>> No.4082673

>>4082649
J.D. Salinger

>> No.4082675

Chandler

>> No.4082684

the uh Murricans are. They have coined the genre.
>>4082650
Realism gets pretty annoying once you've caught the hang of it. He's implying implications - obvious and banal implications.

>> No.4082699

Hemingway aaaall day, nigga.

>> No.4082702

Poe

>> No.4082724

And Bierce! More banalities incoming, bruh!

>> No.4082747

>>4082684
Agreed, realism makes the best first impressions with me but never holds my attention as well as refined prose.

OP, assuming you want to read any of these and aren't just wasting time on the internet, Tobias Wolff has a huge portfolio of entertaining short stories.
Stephen King is also top-tier, but if you didn't read him in high school, then what the fuck?

>> No.4082768

Amy hempel not first post? Get on my level.

Stop what you are doing and go order her collected stories

>> No.4082770

guy de mauppassant.
borges.

>> No.4082953

Flanery O'Connor

>> No.4082966

>>4082953
It's Flannery, but I definitely agree

>> No.4082983

Joyces, Borges

>> No.4083024

B, lil

>> No.4083038
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4083038

Charles Bukowski

His novels are excellent, but nothing beats the emotional punch his short-stories carry.

>> No.4083039

I'm a fan of Isaac Asimov in that regard.

>> No.4083069
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Joyce

"The Dead" changed my view on life.

>> No.4083072

Above all others, Richard Yates.

>> No.4083071

>>4082983
I genuinely support this.

>> No.4083074

>>4083069
What do people see in The Dead? I honestly don't get it

>> No.4083115

i hate to be the pleb in this discussion but i think Stephen King is really good when he's doing short fiction.

>> No.4083129

>>4083074
Live more of life. It'll click for you.

>> No.4083133

JD Salinger, Hemingway, Katherine Mansfield, DH Lawrence

>> No.4083134

Borges, Hemingway, Joyce, Gogol, Chekhov

>>4083074
I mostly like it for the end, which is the strongest epiphany in Dubliners and one of the most powerful endings out of short stories I've read. The stuff leading up to it is pretty good but I think a lot of the cultural/political stuff is lost if you weren't in Ireland at the time (footnotes help bridge the gap some). Plus Joyce's prose is top notch.

>> No.4083166

Hey OP have you read Blow Up and other short stories?

Some were pretty cool, like the one where there's something in the house that's taking over and shit, but many of them seemed pretty cliched and half-baked, like the one where the writer is writing about a guy reading/writing and someone running into his room to kill him and it turns out it's him or something, and the one where teh guy in Paris is hit from his motorbike, but it turns out to be a hallucination some Aztec guy is having.

>> No.4083168

>>4082768
Go to bed Chuck

>> No.4083233

Calvino, Borges and Tolstoy.

>> No.4083244

Maupassant, Akutagawa, Borges, Saadat Hassan Manto.

>> No.4083438

Chekhov, Cheever, Carver, Yates, Purdy.

>> No.4083451

>>4083166
They primarily seem cliched because there's been a lot since their publication that apes them

>> No.4083454

Italo Calvino is arguably better in short stories than in novels.

>> No.4083455

>>4083074
You have no soul.

>> No.4083479

>>4083454
most of his novels are either series of short stories or novellas honestly

>> No.4083510

Wallace, Diaz, Salinger, O'Connor. Especially Wallace. His short story collections were generally better than his novels.

>> No.4083538

Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Julio Cortazar
Arthur Schnitzler

>> No.4083545

>>4082953
>>4083510
A Good Man is Hard to Find by O'Connor is what got me into reading actual worthwhile material. Bravo to you sirs

>> No.4083554

I personnaly really like Buzzati's novels.

>> No.4083572

Chekov, Borges, Joyce, Hemingway, Pushkin, Dostoevsky and Fitzgerald all have good short stories.

>> No.4083586

All of Stephen King's worst tendencies are kept in check when he writes short stories. The Man in the Black Suit is one of the best short stories I've ever read.

>> No.4083646

>>4083038
Mostly if you're a douche bag social recluse.
I'm speaking from experience.

>> No.4083687

>>4083572 >>4083134

Honestly, what's so good about Joyce? I recently read "Dubliners" and nothing really stuck with me, aside from the story 'Clay', which I liked very much. What do you guys consider to be his best stories (aside from the obvious answer)?

>> No.4083699

Saki for sure.

>> No.4083860

>>4082649
Me
End of story.

>> No.4083862

>>4083039
>Asimov
>Short-stories
think again

>> No.4083877

>>4083687
Copy-pasting short criticism of Counterparts:

It's not just naturalism/realism. Keep in mind that Joyce was a pretty significant modernist, which is to say the stories aren't just events or portrayals of people, they're psychological, and on another level, symbolic. Farrington is portrayed amazingly and subtly; on the psychological level he's a narcissist who has no power in his life so he takes it out on his kids. He makes a petty insult to his boss and thinks he's tough for it, and loses an arm wrestling match. His whole day is just him trying to assert control over other people until he comes home, where he beats the shit out of his son (not his wife). The title (Counterparts) is significant as well. He spends the whole day oppressed/controlled by others, then goes home to oppress and control his children. On a deeper level, and from Joyce's quotes on how Dubliners is about the paralysis that takes control of the lives of Dubliners, Farrington's anger is a symptom of the oppressive life of Dublin.

And that's not taking into account all the little details. Like how Farrington's wife bullies him when he's sober, and he bullies her when he's drunk (counterparts). The motif of paralysis shows up in the arm wrestling match.

>> No.4083898

bukowski

>> No.4083912

Thomas Bernhard

>> No.4084050
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>> No.4084088

I'm reading some short stories from Bolaño right now, some of them are beautiful.

>> No.4084240

I'm fond of Amy Hempel. She has flavours of Gerald Manley Hopkins.

>> No.4084365

Bunin, Chekhov, Zamyatin

>> No.4084366
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4084366

>no Gogol
>no Kafka

>> No.4084370

>>4084366
I just noticed Gogol. But still no Kafka...

>> No.4084394

E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich von Kleist, Alexander Pushkin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Nikoali Leskov, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, I. L. Peretz, Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov, O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Rudyard Kipling, Ivan Bunin, Saki, Leonid Andreyev, W. Somerset Maugham, Thomas Mann, Sherwood Anderson, Robert Walser, Stephen Crane, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Karen Blixen, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Anne Porter, Bruno Schulz, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Elizabeth Bowen, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Frank O'Connor, Tommaso Landolfi, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Julio Cortazar, Bernard Malamud, J. D. Salinger, Italo Calvino, Nadine Gordimer, Flannery O'Connor, Cynthia Ozick, Edna O'Brien, Donald Barthelme, Alice Munro, Walter Abish, John Updike, Raymond Carver, Reinaldo Arenas, among others.

>> No.4084408

>>4084394
And I guess if you want some Eastern writers in there you can throw in Sadegh Hedayat, Lu Xun, Yasunari Kawabata

>> No.4084473

why there's no more cortazar in this thread (despicting OP of course) nigga he's a genius

>> No.4084476

>>4084408
Seconding Lu Xun.

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>>4084394
>Frank O Conoor
>Hardy
>Ozick
>Wharton
>Isaac Bashevis Singer

>> No.4084556

Heinrich Böll! Not realy a (big) fan of war related stuff, but that made my surprise even sweeter. This guy's a genious!

>> No.4084563

>>4084514
Yes. They're very highly-regarded short story writers. Problem?

>> No.4084569

JG Ballard's prose is uber-crappy, but he's written some very decent stories

>> No.4084613

>>4084476
>>4084408
GBT Dynasty Warriors faggots.

>> No.4084656

Kafka

>> No.4084661

>>4082650
first response, well done, /lit/

>> No.4084662

>>4084656
this

>> No.4084676

No ones mentioned George Saunders yet. I just read all of his books over the summer and I think he's great.

>> No.4084892

Kafka
Poe
Borges
Gogol
Chekhov

These are the best of the best. Akutagawa misses the mark, but just barely.

>> No.4084902

>>4083129
i physically shuddered when i read that

>> No.4085002

>>4083877
>that child abuse scene
I can still see it in my head, clear as day. God dammit.

>> No.4085040

>>4084902
I only shuddered spiritually.

>> No.4085061

>>4085040
>spirit-shudder
Imma cop dat

>> No.4085242

>>4083069
man im about to read it
just finished grace