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Is he the greatest short story writer of all time?

>> No.6828960

Are you?

>> No.6828995

No, Chekhov is, but Borges is in the top 10.

>> No.6829010

>>6828995
What other authors are in the top 10?

>> No.6829035

That Jew who writes about anxiety is good

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>> No.6829390

>>6828995
Borges is at least top 3.

>> No.6829392

chekhov is for SURE

>> No.6829427

>>6829010
Walser, Turguenev, Felisberto, Kafka, Cortázar

>> No.6829433

>>6828957
Borges is great, but he's reliant on Literature preceding him, conditioning the reader, and he's stimulating primarily to the heart; Kafka, for my money, is the best: he stimulates the head and the heart, and his work has a sort of iconic quality to it that translates very well.

>> No.6829448

Beckett's got some great short stories...

"First Love" "The Expelled" "The Calmative" and "The End"

and "Company" "Ill seen Ill Said" and "Worstward Ho"

>> No.6829461

>>6829427
Which Walser?

>> No.6829463

>>6829448
Calling them stories is a bit of a stretch, no?

>> No.6829483

>>6829463
Okay, well "First Love" is pretty much a story.

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>>6829461
Robert Walser. Wrote the novel Jakob von Guten. Influenced Kafka and Musil, Hermann Hesse and Walter Benjamin.

>> No.6829494

>>6829461
Walser's "The Walk" is great. His selected stories is pretty good.

>> No.6829495

>>6829484
Alright, so you mean the Prosastücke and Mikrogramme. Were on my list anyway.

>> No.6829509

>>6829495
Not OP but I personally prefer his novels more, and not Jakob von Guten but The Tanners and The Assistant, and then The Robber which is much more out there, from his Microscripts stage. Of course, I've never read them in the original, but those novels read beautifully in English. There's also a good collection of his stories in English called Masquerade.

>> No.6829556

>>6829427
Could Raymond Carver and Charles Bukowski count as more modern authors.

>> No.6829578

>>6829509
>>6829494
I only read Jakob von Gunten, which was quite okay, but I also felt, that I will go back to read more of him. Wikipedia says, he is said to be "the missing link between Kleist and Kafka" which pretty much hooked me. Also I can read him in german, so there are no obstacles.

To contribute to the thread, some good short stories, that are not so obvious:
- Heinrich Böll: Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen (Murke's Collected Silences) and Der Mann mit den Messern (The Man with Knives)
- Hugo von Hoffmansthal: Reitergeschichte

And the obvious: Kafka, Borges, Hemingway. Some might want to add Poe, but well...

>> No.6829973

>>6828957
He's not really that short.

>> No.6829995

>>6829973
This

>> No.6830005

>>6829973
But I have it on reliable account that he was sighted short...?

>> No.6830818

>>6829010
Kafka, Cortazar, Maupassant and maybe Zweig
One can possibly add Hemingway (even though I wouldn't consider him top tier)

>> No.6830820

O. Henry

>> No.6830837

>>6828957
my top three are:
Raymond carver
flannery O'Connor
and hemingway or yates.

but my fave short story of all time is the catch aka prize stock by kenzaburo oe.

>> No.6830862

>>6830837
>or yates
i like you
if your favourite is fun with a stranger, i love you

>> No.6831120

>>6829556
why would you lump carver and bukowski together?

>>6830862
<3

>> No.6831276

Maybe, but Tolstoy wrote the greatest short story of all time.

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>> No.6831948

>>6831276
wich one ?

>> No.6831980

>>6830818
I'd add Kawabatta to that, and Poe because Poe's body of short work as a whole is extremely interesting.

I've wanted to read Melville and Joyce's short stories for a long time, how do they compare to writers mentioned here ?

>> No.6832001

>>6828957
Yes.

>> No.6832017

Rudyard Kipling

>> No.6832091

>>6831948

http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2738/

>> No.6832132

>>6829010
Dahl was cracking.

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>>6832091

Bashkirs