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what is your favorite collection of short stories and please explain why

>> No.9907114

>>9907109
Despite that it's fairly base and plebian by /lit/'s standards, Bad Behaviour, by Mary Gaitskill, cuts deep into dysfunctional relationships in 80s America, with grace, power and depth that I've not seen anywhere else.
Also: depictions of BDSM relationships that do not glorify or demonize.

>> No.9907127

The characters in Dubliners are more real than most people I know.

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9907702

Okie, imma hit you up with pic related.

I was 15 at the time, getting into reading and it's what we used at school. It's not an exhaustive collection, but it was one that was my first exposure to different cultures and worldviews in a literary way. Every story felt fresh and magical in their own way, even if they're mundane, and each was presented with a strong identity and character, and so I easily remembered which was which. It's silly, but I just love these little stories. You've got people from Thailand, China, the US, Botswana, South Africa, Russia. I wouldn't have thought about world literature unless that was put in front of me at school.

It did what the title says - opened worlds to me.

>> No.9907709

>>9907109
It's not a collection of short stories, retard. It's a long poem.

>> No.9907964

>>9907709
its basically short stories tho

>> No.9907972

>>9907114
>t. middle aged soccer mom

>> No.9908240

>>9907972
kek

>> No.9908243

Ficciones cause i like cool stories that are easy to read and understand.

>> No.9909745

>>9907964
No, it's a clear singular narrative dedicated to showing the most fundamental truth of human life that uses the western world as it's audience and character.

>> No.9909757

Kevin McDonald's Culture of critique, although it's rather series than short story collection, I urge everyone to educate themselves on the JQ.

>> No.9910212

>>9909757
Why is this book being shilled so much lately?

You guys really need to be more subtle when you try to push books like this.

>> No.9910219

>>9907109
"Poetry is like short stories - the only people who read it are people who write it." - Curtis Yarvin

>> No.9910230

>>9910212
It's just that one guy.

>> No.9910517

>>9910219
And great novelists, and philosophers, and virtually any one (barring some scientists) that'll ever make an impact on the world lasting longer than their own life.

>> No.9910538

>>9909745

t. haven't actually read it

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9910548

>>9910219
>tfw that's actually true

I'm fine with it though.

>> No.9910583

"Sagarana" from Guimarães Rosa.

its modernist regionalism without much of the faggotry that most of the modernists put in their work, specially in brazil.

dont know if could be translated to other languages, wich is a shame...

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9910588

This is my favourite collection of short stories because, although I read it while still quite young so couldn't grasp all (or most of) the references to the classics, I've rarely had my mind blown to such an extent. The sheer amount of thought that he packs into a few pages is amazing.

Better than Kafka's short stories in my opinion.

I also like Carver's short story collections, for different reasons - I enjoy the minimalism and how he conveys emotional pain and the agony of relationships.