>> dude do you realize platonism is a thing
I haven't read the story yet but I've heard of it. What does it have to with platonism? Isn't it just a library with every combination of text?
>dude, like... infinity lmao
Borges has a couple good stories like Death and the Compass and The Circular Ruins but most of his stuff is just intellectual masturbation that redditors fawn over, very overrated and I'm glad that someone (me) finally had the goddamn nuts to say so!
Nonsense. He has lots of good ones and no one even compares to his uniqueness of style and ideas. He is a talented artist. You just like hating on popular people (which takes no nuts at all, btw, as there are plenty of contrarians in the world already).
Either Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville or A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor. Anything from Dubliners is great too. I also read Knight's Gambit by Faulkner recently and liked it quite a bit, need to read more of his stories at some point
What did you like in Major Molineaux? I really liked the suspense and the atmosphere of the city, but the ending was disappointing, I wasn’t expecting so much surrealism at once like that.
So Good by Etgar Keret
Good Intentions by Etgar Keret
This one's good too:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/26/on-the-night-of-the-khatam-fiction-jamil-jan-kochai#intcid=_the-new-yorker-bottom-recirc-version3_d71d7e01-04d2-4d28-a381-7e2eca6bdeb8_text2vec1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Affair_of_Honor_(short_story)
I don't know why. It feels perfect though it probably isn't, and I'm not even sure I understood it but it resonates with me and inspires me to write but Nabokov does so in general.
Great choice.
I like Borges' Death and the Compass, but I'm not sure if it's my favorite altogether. Maybe.
Most written by Samuel Vaknin.
The movie is pretty good, too.
The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman
The Bear, Faulkner
The Lottery in Babylon, Borges
One of these
Putting it on the reading list.
Eveline - Joyce
Milan by Calibro 9 - Scerbanenco (doubt anyone here has read it)
>The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman
had it on my backburner for way too long.
I forgot half of the story but i remember thinking The Lottery in Babylon was so fricking cool. Imma read it again.
Great choice OP, I love his 'The Lottery in Babylon' story.
I and my Chimney by Herman Melville
Tenga para que se entretenga, José Emilio Pacheco
I don't know if it's been translated to English
The most overrated book of all time. The whole book is just
> dude do you realize platonism is a thing
Yes I do. Plato wrote about it.
>> dude do you realize platonism is a thing
I haven't read the story yet but I've heard of it. What does it have to with platonism? Isn't it just a library with every combination of text?
a small good thing
Three Versions of Judas, Borges
Best use of Gnostic themes in any short story
On the reading list
Just got my hands on Labyrinths a couple of days ago.
Read it twice, got filtered twice. Maybe I'll give it another go in the near future?
Rustico and Alibech by Boccaccio
Probably "The Garden of Time" by J. G. Ballard.
The chrysanthemums John Steinbeck
I love John Cheever's ones: Goodbye, My Brother, The Enormous Radio, The Swimmer...
>dude, like... infinity lmao
Borges has a couple good stories like Death and the Compass and The Circular Ruins but most of his stuff is just intellectual masturbation that redditors fawn over, very overrated and I'm glad that someone (me) finally had the goddamn nuts to say so!
Nonsense. He has lots of good ones and no one even compares to his uniqueness of style and ideas. He is a talented artist. You just like hating on popular people (which takes no nuts at all, btw, as there are plenty of contrarians in the world already).
Get off my board, Max. You're starting to get on my nerves.
Either Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville or A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor. Anything from Dubliners is great too. I also read Knight's Gambit by Faulkner recently and liked it quite a bit, need to read more of his stories at some point
Lo que sucedió a un deán de Santiago con don Illán, el mago de Toledo, XI Cuento narrado por Don Juan Manuel en "El Conde Lucanor"
My Kinsman, Major Molineux by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
Read here: https://viva.pressbooks.pub/amlit1/chapter/my-kinsman-major-molineux-1832-nathaniel-hawthorne/
What did you like in Major Molineaux? I really liked the suspense and the atmosphere of the city, but the ending was disappointing, I wasn’t expecting so much surrealism at once like that.
I like that it's ahead of its time. It reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson before Hunter S. Thompson.
The Black Lights by Thom Jones
"Real Life" by Donald Ray Pollock
the burrow
i have no mouth and i must scream i guess
good choice...I always liked Harlan Ellison. He seemed to just not give a frick about anything, and he even successfully sued James Cameron, etc.
The Egg, Library of Babel, I have no Mouth & I must Scream crossover would be kino.
So Good by Etgar Keret
Good Intentions by Etgar Keret
This one's good too:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/26/on-the-night-of-the-khatam-fiction-jamil-jan-kochai#intcid=_the-new-yorker-bottom-recirc-version3_d71d7e01-04d2-4d28-a381-7e2eca6bdeb8_text2vec1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Affair_of_Honor_(short_story)
I don't know why. It feels perfect though it probably isn't, and I'm not even sure I understood it but it resonates with me and inspires me to write but Nabokov does so in general.
The Terrapin by Patricia Highsmith
Emotionally abused boy snaps after hearing turtle his mother was boiling scream to death. Boy butchers his mother at night.
God Sees the Truth, But Waits
No one mentioned Gogol or Kafka?
The Nose / The Coat by Gogol
Kafka A hunger artist
Hunger artist is underrated especially in this day and age of automation
Araby by James Joyce.
Yes i am a basic b***h, frick you
Hesse's Monk story at the end of Glass Bead Game.
brumpf
I only read long stories
The Street by Lovecraft
One about bored AI taking over humanity