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ITT: Short masterpieces.

>> No.5019171
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>>5019055

>> No.5019389
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I wasn't aware that we called 'romancık' to novellas. You learn something everyday.

>> No.5019570
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>>5019055
Best short book I've read I think. Only 70 pages.

>> No.5019584

>>5019171
>you'll never live in a twilit grotto
>you'll never be bound by heritage
>you'll never endure the incessant, gnawing and scraping of the Rats

>> No.5019592

>>5019584
why would you want any of those things

>> No.5019600
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>>5019055
This only have a little over 100 pages, and might be the best short book ever.

>> No.5019624

>>5019600
I think all the books posted so far are better. The Stranger is alright but I'd recc. reading some of the others posted IIT.

>> No.5019633
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>>5019624
I'll agree about The Metamorphosis being better than The Stranger.

>> No.5019639
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You know what else is a short masterpiece, though? My dick. ;3c

>> No.5019644

>short masterpiece
>roman à clef

>> No.5019683

>>5019055
Candide by Voltaire

>> No.5019699

Both are overrated, especially Le Stranger.

Stranger is only rated as highly as it is because it's a novella whose themes and symbols are easy to spot.

If it was a hundred pages longer people would treat it with the same indifference they do Zola et al.

Also if pictures of Camus smoking cigarettes and looking like an edgemaster didn't exist his fanclub would pretty much fold.

I'm objectively right about all this by the way, just in case anybody is doubting anything written in the above

>> No.5019700

>>5019699
>I'm objectively right about all this by the way
heh

>> No.5019709

>>5019683
worst book ever written

>> No.5019720

>>5019683
The fuck is your problem with Candide ?
It is really bad, the worst book of Voltaire.

>> No.5019755
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This. The first of the trilogy.

>> No.5020843

Bump

>> No.5020893

>>5019709
Agreed. It fucking sucks.

>> No.5022899

bump

>> No.5024483
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Miura's "He's leaving home". He got the Akutagawa price for that one.

>> No.5024578

bartleby the scrivener

read it the other day. really great read, very amusing and a little moving. no idea what it was 'about' but i liked it a lot. strange little book.

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>>5019699
>Le Stranger

I fart in your general direction

>> No.5025395
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Masterpiece

>> No.5026888

>>5019171

I was so bored with this one until the end.

My favourite one is actually the one about the zombies and the insane doctors, even though it's supposed to be his most pleb work

>> No.5026912

Exterminator by Burroughs
Nick Adams Stories by Hemingway
Cathedral by Carver
any short story by poe, hawthorne, HP Lovecraft,Fuentes

>> No.5026929

"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into."

"You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

A Little Fable by Franz Kafka

>> No.5026961

>>5019639
agreed here. unreal novel

>> No.5027045
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This.

>> No.5027050

>>5019055
Born Bad by Andrew Vachss

>> No.5027059

The Yellow Wallpaper

A lot of Chekhov's stories fit the bill. If I had to pick one, I'd say The Lady with the Dog or The House with the Mezzanine.

Also, Nabokov's The Eye.

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http://bookre.org/reader?file=266612

>> No.5027105
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Change your life in 10 minutes.

>> No.5027317

>>5025395
this and kreutzer

can't believe anyone prefers war&piss and karenina to this

>> No.5027339

>>5027105
I remember having to read this for junior high. The seagull starved himself to fly faster or some shit.

>> No.5027343

>>5027339
So, it's about Catholic masochism?

>> No.5027350

>>5019584
>>you'll never endure the incessant, gnawing and scraping of the Rats
I have a fucking possum the size of a West African woman scraping around in my celling, the walls are filled with its hellish spawn. Trust me, you don't want to be woken to the sound of scraping in the dead of night all the time

>> No.5027361

>>5019600
It's ok. That's about it. I enjoyed it but I feel you're putting it on a pedestal a little, brother. Maybe some of the magic is lost in translation?

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>>5019055

>> No.5027377

>>5027343
I haven't got a single clue. I haven't reread the thing since 7th/8th grade.

>> No.5027425

>>5027343

It sounds like it's about the need for great sacrifice in order to gain great rewards, the great reward being the balancing act of existence, between the finite and the infinite, between order and chaos, an issue which, yes, Catholicism and other religions deal with directly.

>> No.5027427

>>5027425
Catholics think their religious issues are universal, as does every other religion.

>> No.5029792

>>5026912
I don't really care for the Nick Adams stories. The other stuff from In Our Time is better.

>> No.5029918

>>5027105
seagulls have wings. humans have no such inborn qualities that can be turned to other purposes. this book is stupid.

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>> No.5030231

>>5019699
The Stranger is more popular because it's his most accessible but I don't really see what that has to do with some of the other conclusions that you came to

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>>5029997
That's not novella short, but it's a damn good book that everyone should read

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>>5030238
Your pic was one of my top five books last year. I also enjoyed In Watermelon Sugar.

<my recomendation

>> No.5030420

>>5024578
Oh you want me to read that? Well, I'd prefer not to.

>> No.5031139

>>5019055
bump

>> No.5031146
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Anything by lovecraft.

>The shadow out of time.

>> No.5031308

>>5019584
>tfw your cat's name isn't Niggerman