What's the greatest short story of all time?
The lightning-rod man is my favorite! Runners-up are bartleby & guayaquil. I'm not such a big short story person THOUGH
>>24944337Nevsky Prospect
i hate picking things out as the greatest. the qualities i like in a story will be unique to that story and won't be comparable to the qualities i like in another story. it's because of their incomparability that i like them. but that aside, the greatest short story of all time is obviously Borges's The South.
>>24944337never heard of that guy so probably not himedit is he woke?i would say any story by john cheever
>>24944337I'm picking Life of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz, also by Borges.
Some personal favorites>A&P, Updike>Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, Salinger>Uncle Willy, Faulkner>The Man Who Lost the Sea, Sturgeon>Ticket to Tranai, Sheckley>The Dowager of Bees, Mieville
>>24944417>is he woke?Nothing is woke if you're not a burnt out alcoholic :^)
>>24944337It's a normie pick but I still love Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."A lot of thematic depth in so few pages.
>>24944337The Dead, by Joyce.>inb4 too long, doesn't count
>>24944337La Morte Amoureuse, Théophile Gautier (1836)
>>24944337>Borges
>>24944337Definitely not that- though that is an okay Borges story but its nothing spectacularMy vote is Rustico and Alibech
>>24944337The Tereus, Procne & Philomela canto of Metamorphoses. Made me cry on the toilet while reciting it for the first time. The window is open so the neighbours would've heard me if they were home.inb4 hurr durr poems aren't short stories
The country doctor by Kafka
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro by Hemingway
>>24944337The garden of forking paths
The Genesis
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>>24944337Gogol's Overcoat
>>24944337Understand by Ted Chiang
I really don't know if it's the "best" - but Forever Overhead by DFW is up there for me.Here is the author reading it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiuz2L6AqdcA lot of commenters here are correct in that Borges is probably the best to ever do it though, alongside Carver.
>>24947902Jacques Sternberg was very good too. Sadly, not translated to english dor the most part. Read Partir, c'est mourir un peu moins [To Leave is to Die a Little] (1958):https://ciudadseva.com/texto/partir-es-morir-un-poco/
>>24947884Chiang is surprisingly good, but that's not the story I would've picked. Hell is the Abscence of God, Exhalation, Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom, and What's Expected of Us are my favorites.
