Who is the best short story writer of all time and why is it Borges?
He's great but I find his namedrops tiresome.
>>8256090
Kafka ftw
>>8256102
This.
>>8256104
>>8256102
Kafka's a cuck.
>>8256097
>namedrops
you're being dismissive of his narrative style. he isn't posturing his extensive knowledge of history and literature, he's expanding his world by connecting it to reality, feeding off of the real world like estuaries. It's part of his subtractive style of telling a story by telling about the story in an encyclopedic manner, references allusion become an effective tool.
Which also explains why he's constantly "namedropping" people who don't exist, quoting from books that don't exist, making references to historical events that never happened.
Magical realism blurs the line between reality and unreality
>>8256109
and?
>>8256102
Kafka? Kafka.
In the Penal Colony is metal af.
>>8256109
And Borges died a virgin
>>8256090
Here is he, architect of the finest labor in the field. When I find myself reading him, in finite tales truths no mere ordinary writer could so lay bare.
>>8256118
>unreality
what the fuck is "unreality"
Donald Barthelme
>>8256150
Reddit harder m8
>>8256168
Read about Borges for literally five minutes
>>8256090
Junot Diaz. Or Alice Munro.
>>8256090
Nabokov's short stories are better than his novels
>>8256090
They are more vingettes than stories tho
>>8256109
No he's not, frog poster
>>8256090
>ctrl+f
>no chekhov
/lit/ - Literature
Guy de Maupassant
Somerset Maugham
>>8256149
>implying there is something wrong with that
sexcucks need to stop getting laid
It's hard to decide, really.
Borges, Kafka, Chekhov, Maupassant, Joyce, I can't pick a favorite.
Also for people who want to check out some really unknown good stuff, I suggest the serbian short story writers Laza Lazarović, Radoje Domanović, and especially Petar Kočić.
>>8256149
I don't believe it. Maria was pretty cute, she's still attractive now for a woman of her age desu. Although now that I think of it Borges was blind. . .
Are you telling me they never had sex? That's so sad.
>>8256285
Kafka > Maupassant
>>8256292
because he's blind doesn't mean that he can't find people attractive
I think a maid said that they slept in seperate rooms or something, but I don't see why they couldn't have atleast done it occasionally
Chekhov and Borges are the two masters.
>>8256292
nah bruh. looka this dude he Aheago from the argi sex
Toss up between Borges, O'Connor, and Tillie Olsen for me. Honorable mention to Faulkner.
>>8256285
>Joyce
didnt he write Dubliners and thats it?
>>8256335
Yeah, but I consider "Dubliners" so good that it equals the work of other writers I named. I'm sure a lot of people would disagree with me, but that's how I see it.
>>8256340
that's pretty dumb. Works like Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and Kafka's Great Wall of China are maximalist short fiction, generating a microcosm of universal considerations through subtle and versatile allegory. Dubliners is about a bunch of people in Dublin.
>>8256328
Flan is based
>>8256307
But physically though. I read a non fiction book once about Canadian soldiers in Italy, and this one guy steps on a mine and is blinded, and he said that in the hospital fat nurses would come onto him, but he could still tell and give them short thrift. But as long as the woman wasn't overweight or physically deformed, would beauty matter that much?
>>8256340
go read finnegans wake and stop being a child
>>8256292
>Are you telling me they never had sex?
Well, she did manage to screw him though, and his hand-picked translator too.
>>8256393
well he could still feel facial/anatomical features with his hands, and there is attractiveness beyond that
>>8256358
>Works like Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and Kafka's Great Wall of China are maximalist short fiction, generating a microcosm of universal considerations through subtle and versatile allegory. Dubliners is about a bunch of people in Dublin.
so? do you read for size? that's the plebbiest shit I ever heard
the immortal by borges is probably my favorite short story though
>>8256477
When we have novels, short fiction should ideally fulfill some niche that individuates it as a category beyond accomodating the lazy. I believe that niche to be the economical presentation of a complex and comprehensive thought otherwise requiring exhaustive elalboration.
>>8256090
Nah
>>8256097
That's only because you're so uncultured
>>8256292
i hate that fucking bitch
>>8257279
Don't talk shit about my litfu, scrub
>>8256285
I see you a lot around here Serbian bro, if its only one of youI NEVER READ YOUR RECCS
>>8256259
Chekhov is a playwright, m80
>>8257307
shes a cunt. gold digger kept all his shit and got plastic surgery and looks like a cum rag.
>>8256285
I bet none of them are in english
>reading translations
>reading
>r
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>>8256259
Am I dumb for not getting the Black Monk one?
>>8257415
Chekov was a prolific short storyist as well. Widely considered one of the greatest short story writers of all time. Nigga's boss as a mothafucka
>>8258550
Lorrie Moore's prose is actually pretty similar to Pynchon's. Also characters: Oedipa Maas, Rachael Owlglass, Herbert Stencil, and Benny Profane could believably inhabit Moore's stories
O'Connor is fantastic
>>8256358
embarrassing post
>>8259477
kek
>>8256090
It's Borges because he was so widely read and therefore was all those authors he read.
