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http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601711.txt You might enjoy this.
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I recently read What We Talk ABout When We Talk About Love by Raymnond Carver (it's quite good). Apparantly he himself thought his stories were edited too much and he got another book published, called Beginners, which has the original versions of those stories before his editor changed them. Did anyone read both? How do they compaire? edit: Welp, apparantly somebody already adressed this earlier in this thread. Walh Hara fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Sep 28, 2014 09:59
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I kinda feel obligated to plug Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl here. It's conveniently available as a PDF http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/BlindOwl/blindowl2013.pdf
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Sep 28, 2014 11:04
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ulvir posted:I kinda feel obligated to plug Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl here. It's conveniently available as a PDF http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/BlindOwl/blindowl2013.pdf Thank you
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Robert Walser is probably my favourite short fiction writer, he was a contemporary of kafka and I can see some similarities between the two but not a great deal. WG Sebad liked Mr.Walser quite a bit too and I think his writing shows flashes of Walser at times. Wikipedia describes him "A characteristic of Walser's texts is a playful serenity behind which hide existential fears. Today, Walser's texts, completely re-edited since the 1970s, are regarded as among the most important writings of literary modernism. In his writing, he made use of elements of Swiss German in a charming and original manner, while very personal observations are interwoven with texts about texts; that is, with contemplations and variations of other literary works, in which Walser often mixes pulp fiction with high literature." I'd describe Walser as the master of the mundane. His writing is light, comical and his narrators seem to be naive. I'm not very good at describing why I like him much but he's good and cool. I'd recommend "A Schoolboy's Diaries and other stories" as a good starting point.
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Guess I get to plug my favorite short story author. Well, almost crosses into poetry at times. Spencer Holst. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Holst) The guy is magical. Nothing else comes even close in putting me in that "storyteller at the campfire in the dark" mood. I have only read one book so far, "The Language Of Cats". That specific copy originally came from AVON and it was on a free/discard book pile at my university. Free is a pretty good deal for a life-changing book. I need to get more... Probably the best story to start from that book was "The Zebra Storyteller", although "The Santa Claus Murderer" was pretty lovely too.
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