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Anybody know a good collection of short stories?
I've tried Kafka but damn the guy didn't know how to write an ending. I've wanted to try "Labyrinths" but the reviewers always sound like such pretentious pseuds that it turns me off. I've also tried Lovecraft, just Dagon 2bh, but I got bored beyond that dope as shit first paragraph.

>> No.9912551

>>9912545
It's a bit of a meme here but Dubliners

>> No.9912554 [DELETED] 

>>9912545
Try Kevin Macdonald's Culture of Critique.

>> No.9912562

Tadeusz Różewicz. War survivor, his late works are distinctly post-modernist

>> No.9912565

Norton anthology of short fiction the full version not the shorter edition.
You can get it used for $5.
Borges is very good though.

>> No.9912589

>>9912565
what is the full version? theres lots of different editions on thriftbooks with different covers. I found a very good condition one published in 2000 with 1700 pages. Says its 6th edition

>> No.9912616

>>9912589
Yeah that's the one, they'll say if it's the shorter edition on the cover.

>> No.9912676 [DELETED] 

>>9912545
>Kafka doesn't write funny endings
>Lovecraft is boring
Here you go : http://matthewreilly.com/resources/short-stories/

>> No.9912758

>>9912676
who said anything about Kafka and funny endings
>reading comprehension

>> No.9912828

>>9912545
>Damn the guy didn't know how to write an ending

This just might be the most wrong post I've seen on /lit/, 4chan, the Internet and life in general.

>> No.9912851

>>9912828
okay I have a question then
what the fuck happened at the end of "in the penal colony"?
so traveler, prisoner and soldier are just strolling and shit, and then they try to strongarm their way onto travelers boat,
he reacts by chasing them off with a rope.
wtf did that have to do with the whole previous ordeal?

>> No.9912859

I wish Kevin McDonald would write a collection of short stories. I know they'd be really good.

>> No.9912873

>>9912859
The Culture of Critique is already top-tier. I don't think even MacDonald could top that

>> No.9912881
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9912881

>>9912545
Anton Chekhov. You know you want that Russian boipussy

>> No.9912896

>>9912851
Underage detected

>> No.9912975

>>9912896
okay now I understand, thank you

>> No.9913169

>>9912545
But Labyrinths is awesome. Just because pretentious pseuds read it doesn't make it shit

>> No.9914537

>>9912545
>he needs an ending to enjoy writing

don't worry, you'll die some day

>> No.9914564

>>9912851
The Explorer doesn't want to have anything to do with them, especially after seeing the epitaph in the tea house.

Also, that's not the ending per se. That's the anticlimax. The climax of the story is the Officer's death.