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Suggest only the very finest novellas you've read. Feel free to recommend short short story collections and novels <250 pages long.

The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
The Fall - Albert Camus
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness - Richard Yates

>> No.6148134

>>6148101
Solar lottery - The DICK.

>> No.6148138

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
TCoL49 is pretty swell too

>> No.6148141

Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion

>> No.6148155

No one writes to the colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The lightnings of august by Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo and of course The Metamorphosis by Kafka

Crying is also top notch, I agree

>> No.6148159

>>6148101

Un cœur simple

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The Double by Dostoevsky.

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>> No.6148234

>>6148101
Every short story by Dostoevsky. His are by far the best short stories I've read. Some to check out are The Double, The thief, Notes From Underground, and White Nights.

>> No.6148249

Mao II
Death in Venice
Candide

>> No.6148252

>>6148101
The Body Artist. Delillo
Taratuta. Donoso

>> No.6148262

>>6148101
Who doesn't love The Overcoat?

>> No.6148271

Alvaro Mutis' Maqroll series is composed of novellas, with Tramp Steamer being, in my opinion, his best.
Bolaño's by night in chile, Onetti's Cuando entonces, Beckett's Malone Dies, Gonçalo Tavares' Agua, cão, cabalho, cabeça.

>> No.6148293

>>6148262
I thought the ending slightly weakened the tone. I mean, come on, he becomes a ghost. The story was supposed to be melancholy and tragic.

>> No.6148308

The Tale of How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, by Nikolai Gogol.

>> No.6148313

Dubliners

>> No.6148320 [DELETED] 

>the crying lot of 45

>> No.6148340

>>6148293
I thought the ending was perfect as it elevated the whole thing into myth, but I can see why anyone would just want him to stay the same guy over the years.

>> No.6148346

What are some good novella's written before the 21st century which have a lighthearted, but not necessarily romantic, feeling?
I don't want it to be unaware of sadness, but rather it counters that realisation with happiness.

>> No.6148351

Of Mice and Men
Heart of Darkness
Street of Crocodiles

>> No.6148432

Candide, Voltaire
the Fall, Camus
Lord of the Flies, Golding
Animal Farm, Orwell
Franny and Zooey, Salinger
The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Calvino
Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
The Penal Colony, Kafka

>> No.6148704

>>6148101
The idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

>> No.6148734

Noon Wine by Katherine Anne Porter

>> No.6149037

Notes from the Underground Dostoyevsky

>> No.6149047

Metamorphosis - Kafka