/lit/ - Literature

>>10755115
>no one reads

>I have no mouth and i must scream
>The Last Question
>George Orwell: You and the Atomic Bomb (this is an essay but a bloody good read so im going to include it here because i enjoyed it)

>>10755115
>/lit/
>read
>thinking anyone here reads

how new are you?

>>10755115
How short is short? Would Shooting An Elephant by Orwell count?

Regardless Bartleby goes in all fields.

Maybe not the three best, but the first three that came to mind:

The God's Script by Jorge Luis Borges
The Human Chair by Edogawa Ranpo
Tongue Cathedral by James Havoc

Personal picks:

- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
- The Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga
- The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

Bonus: Microfiction: A woman alone with her soul by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

Bonus 2: Manga short fiction: Lingering Farewell aka Gentle Goodbye by Junji Ito.

>>10755594
>Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
wtf

>>10755115
for now:

The Yellow Shawl - Francisco Arcellana
Hills Like White Elephants - Ernest Hemingway
The Lottery - Anton Chekhov

Personal picks:

- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
- The Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga
- The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

Bonus: Microfiction: A Woman Alone with Her Soul by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

Bonus 2: Manga short fiction: Lingering Farewell aka Gentle Goodbye by Junji Ito.

>>10755115

Perhaps not the best, but three that come immediately to mind:

>For Esme With Love And Squalor (J.D. Salinger)
>The Speckled Band (Arthur Conan Doyle)
>Everything Stuck To Him (Raymond Carver)

Three more because you meant to say six not three:-
>Katina (Roald Dahl)
>The Battler (Ernest Hemingway)
>The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (James Thurber)

Maupassant didn't age well if you ask me.

Mine are:
>Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend, Wodehouse
>The Red Room, Paul Bowles
>Owl Creek Bridge

>>10755115
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / Borges
The Hunger Artist / Kafka
The Man Who Loved Islands / Lawrence

Honourable mentions: any Flannery O'Connor, Lovecraft's Beyond The Wall of Sleep, Clarke's The Nine Billion Names of God

Matoš - Camao
Borges - Asterion
Tolstoy - Kholstomyer
Probably not my definite favourites (except for the Tolstoy) because I can't really remember everything I've read and rank them, but I really love all three of these.

Eleonora - Edgar Allan Poe
Das Urteil (the Judgement) - Kafka
Michael Kohlhaas - von Kleist

>>10756031
>For Esme With Love And Squalor (J.D. Salinger)
agreed his best eventhough he ahs other very note worthy short stories
>>10755622
>The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
good as well, but by far not the best Poe tale in my opinion.
>>10756031
>The Battler (Ernest Hemingway)
The hills like white elephants is a story of his you might want to check out

>>10755115
The Kiss definitely hit me hard when i read it

>>10756189
He wrote House of Asterion in one night, the day before a deadline, how...

A Clean Well Lighted Place
Young Goodman Brown
Bartleby the Scrivener

>>10756247
Ah I forgot Bartleby in mine, fantastic

>O Homem que Sabia Javanês by Lima Barreto
>The Library of Babel by Borges
>Diary of a Mad Man by Nikolai Gogol

>>10755115
>>10756196
Is The Kiss the one where the lights go out and some sort of fish makes a "smack" sound and it looks like a guy kissed a servant? (Or at least that's what the guy thinks and he tries to convince people otherwise, ironically planting the seeds of doubt on guest's minds himself)

>>10756300
Its a lady that kisses the guy acidentally in a dark room or something because she had mistaken him for someone else, then the guy starts obsessing over the lady and "her feelings for him"

My list is:

>The Dead - Joyce
>The Pedersen Kid - Gass
>A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - Hemingway

>>10756194
I've read all the Hemingway short stories; I don't think any one really stands out head and shoulders above the rest.

Hills Like White Elephants is perfectly-done, for sure.
The Killers, A Clean Well-Lighted Place, Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Short Happy Life of F.M. are all good too. Maybe I just have a soft spot for The Battler because that's when Hemingway really clicked for me.

>crtl+f metamorphosis
>0 results

>>10756842

No-one really likes Kafka.

Sometimes we pretend to like Kafka.

But when no-one is looking, we kick Kafka.

>>10756842
It's a novella

>>10756858
Edgy

my favorites
>Crane - The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
>Chekov - Gooseberries
>O. Henry - A Retrieved Reformation

>>10756346
good picks
>>10756059
noice

>>10756858
I think we don't like Kafka due to the fact that he makes you feel extremely anxious and erase disturbance within ourselves and that applys in particular to Verwandlung

>>10756901
>Chekhov - Gooseberries
Mein neger.

>>10755115
Only three? Damn...

In the Penal Colony by Kafka
Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville
The Lady and the Dog by Chekhov

>>10755115
Trilobites and Other Stories by Breece DJ Pancake is one of my favourite collections of short stories. It's a real gem.

>>10757732
>Breece DJ Pancake
I thought this was a joke, but wow, there is a guy with this seemingly ridiculous a name, and he's not a rapper, instead he's some relatively obscure short story writer (who's nevertheless mostly extremely well-acclaimed by the small fanbase of critics and writers who have read him) with a very deep and mysterious life who committed suicide in 1979. Thanks for the rec, will check out.

>Hell is the Absence of God
>Hell is the Absence of God
>Hell is the Absence of God

Ein Hungerkünstler by Kafka
Viewfinder by Carver
An Encounter by Joyce

>>10758380
Might drop Viewfinder for Bananafish by Salinger

There's only one short story I've read lately that bears mentioning: "Cat Person". I don't know the author and I'll have to find a link, but it was kino.

>>10758380
what do you find so special about An Ecounter?

>How the Brigadier Was Tempted by the Devil by Arthur Conan Doyle
>Idle Days on the Yann by Lord Dunsany
>The Life of a Stupid Man by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

>>10755115
The Lady with the Dog
A Country Doctor
The Snow Queen

The Purloined Letter by Poe
The Door in the Wall by Wells
The Overcoat by Gogol
The Jaunt by Stephen King

Can't pick only three desu.
I have read a very few anyhow.
I've read around 60 by Kafka and curiously I liked non of them. Metamorphosis is superb. They were to abstract anyhow.

Purloined Letter
Jaunt
The Door in the Wall
Overcoat

>A Simple Heart - Flaubert
>The Hunger Artist - Kafka
>Signifying Nothing - DFW

Not objective best or favourites, but these struck me:
Love by Maupassant
Yukoku (Patriotism) by Mishima
Tonio Kroger by Mann

bümp

>>10755115
>Rashomon
>At the Mountains of Madness
>The Masque of the Red Death

A Living Relic - Turgenev
The Queen of Spades - Pushkin
The Queer Feet - Chesterton

>>10763450
>A Living Relic - Turgenev
>Skecthes of a Hunter's album

>>10763437
>
not bad m8

terror - nabokov
araby - joyce
the library of babel - borges

how about discussion and not jsut post 3 lines and leave the thread agin you dickless faggots???

>>10764471
I didn't leave the thread. I'm still here waiting for (You)s

>>10764511
Did you Make a (you) when you made your original post?
Because that can greatly increase the chances of receiving one in return AND AIDS TO CREATING ACTUAL DISCUSSION!

>>10764529
Nope. I'm pretty lazy scum, you see.

>10764537
well you are the problem.
Go scroll up and see how truly useless htis thread is since all it is is people posting their three lines and then going back to their hentai novels.
(you) don't deserve a (you) now either anymore

>>10764582
I know, I know. But now I can't fix what I have done. I ruin everything, I am scum, I want to die, I only wanted a little attention

The Dead - Joyce
Understanding the Ur-Bororo - Will Self
Nightfall - Asimov
The Lottery - Jackson

>>10764814
missed the three part in OP, scratch Asimov

>>10755115
Off the top of my head:
>"Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story" by Russell Banks
>"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver
>"The Peach Stone" by Paul Horgan

Runners up:
>"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'brien
>"Uncle Willy" by Faulkner
>"Labor Day Dinner" by Alice Munro

>>10763450
Now that I think of it, I should have included "Nachts schlafen die Ratten doch" by Wolfgang Borchert. I read it in German, but there is probably an english translation.

>>10755115
Barry Hannah da gawd

>>10755115
Tony's Story

>the last leaf, o' henry
>a piece of string, maupassant
How these two end always make me cry.

>garden of forking paths, borgez
The only story I liked from Borges so far.

I haven't read many short stories so I hope there will be more replies to this thread.

>>10756059
>An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
This was one of the few assigned texts I read in high school that really made an impression on me. Anyone who hasn't read it yet and has fifteen minutes to spare is in for a treat.