Category: Contemporary Short Stories

This vintage ebook features a number of brief tales, together with 'England, My England', 'Monkey Nuts' and 'The Primrose Path', and may end up an stress-free learn for all.

The debut brief tale assortment by means of the writer of Eileen, shortlisted for the fellow Booker Prize 2016.

There’s whatever eerily unsettling approximately Ottessa Moshfegh’s tales, whatever virtually harmful whereas additionally being pleasant – and sometimes even weirdly hilarious. Her characters are all unsteady on their ft; all craving for connection and betterment, in very alternative ways, yet each one of them turns out destined to be tripped up through their very own baser impulses. What makes those tales so relocating is the emotional stability that Moshfegh achieves – the way in which she exposes the unlimited diversity of self-deception that humans can hire whereas, even as, infusing the ugly and outrageous with tenderness and compassion. The flesh is vulnerable; the trees is crooked; everyone is merciless to one another, and silly, and hurtful, yet good looks comes from unusual assets, and the darkish power surging via those tales is oddly and powerfully invigorating.

Moshfegh has been in comparison to Flannery O’Connor, Jim Thompson, Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith yet her voice and her mastery of language and tone are specified. essentially the most talented and intriguing younger writers in the United States, she indicates us uncomfortable issues, and makes us examine them forensically – until eventually we discover, by surprise, that we're rather ourselves.

En 1925 Robert Walser, escritor predilecto de Franz Kafka, muy apreciado por Robert Musil, Elias Canetti, Thomas Bernhard o Peter Handke, entre otros, publica su último libro, un conjunto de prosas breves titulado l. a. rosa, en el que aparecen reflejados todos los temas de sus mejores obras y de sus más conocidas páginas. En estas espléndidas instantáneas que captan al paso los angeles realidad más esquiva y a l. a. vez más cercana, Robert Walser rescata, mediante historias, paseos, impresiones, artículos, diálogos o irónicas reseñas de libros, esos pequeños accidentes íntimos que asaltan su encuentro informal y emocionado con l. a. vida, que considera maravillosa, pero que no termina de entender, aunque consiga acercarnos, con el ritmo rápido y provocador de su pensamiento y con l. a. apariencia trivial de cada una de estas prosas, a ese flujo sobrecogedor de los angeles fugacidad de lo cotidiano, en donde se insinúa, entre l. a. parodia y l. a. reflexión más ácida, su propia poética del instante.

Hierdie omvangryke versameling van die bekende en gewilde Nataniël se verhoogverhale is die ideale Kersgeskenk! Nataniël is een van Suid-Afrika se meester-storievertellers op die verhoog. Sy unieke stem en styl, sy spitsvondige en skerpsinnige humor, sy deernis vir die verskoppelinge en verstotelinge, dit alles maak hom ’n belangrike stem in ons kultuur en samelewing. Die versameling sluit in byna al sy verhale (Afrikaans én Engels) uit ouer bundels wat reeds deur die jare uit druk geraak het (Oopmond, Rubber, Maria Maria, Tuesday, Kaalkop², whilst I was), sowel as 10 nuwe stories.
This broad number of tales by way of the inimitable Nataniël will make a fantastic Christmas reward for any of his enthusiasts! His detailed voice and magnificence, his quirky and sharp humour, his empathy for the outcast and outsider, make him a massive voice in our society. the gathering comprises just about all his tales (English and Afrikaans) from his older books that are now out of print (Oopmond, Rubber, Maria Maria, Tuesday, Kaalkop², whilst I was), in addition to 10 new stories.

in brief vignettes and longer tales, Josephine Rowe explores the assumption of items which are left in the back of: souvenirs, scars, prejudice. those fantastically wrought, bittersweet tales seize way of life in restricted poetic prose, merging issues of collective reminiscence and guilt, permanence and impermanence, and inherited ideals. A mom strikes north along with her younger children who watch her and check out to decipher her buried grief. photographers record a nation’s guilt in photographs of its people’s arms. An underground membership in Western Australia performs jazz to nostalgic consumers dreaming of America’s Deep South. a tender girl struggles to outline herself one of the muddle of items an ex-lover has left behind.

This quantity brings jointly the easiest of Ruskin Bond’s prose and poetry. For over 4 a long time, when it comes to innumerable novels, essays, brief tales and poems, the writer has mapped out and peopled a different literary panorama. This anthology has choices from all of his significant books and comprises the vintage novella Delhi isn't Far.

Ola Yevguènieva, Véra-Margarita Abansèrev, Vitali Kroptkin, Aleksandr Vòlkov i Iosif Bergxenko eren according to a mi uns escriptors desconeguts abans que Anastàssia Maxímovna em fes arribar els seus contes.

Per a mi, formen half d'una ficció sobre una ficció. Tot el que s'esdevé en els seus relats acaba configurant l. a. història d'un territori i d'un país que podria ser imaginari. Fins i tot en l. a. realitat, ¿no podria ser vulnerable d'ésser pensada com una enorme fàbula, los angeles història de Rússia del darrer segle i mig? Un país tan gran que sembla mentida que pugui existir, amb unes epopeies d'una magnitud inconcebible i que ha provocat i patit sismes que es noten arreu del globus. I com si aquesta ficció només es pogués entendre des de l. a. ficció, aquests contes descriuen un arc històric que va des d'aquell principi dels temps que és el segle XIX fins les línies aèries de baix price. Des de los angeles recreació d'algunes fàbules tradicionals fins los angeles difícil relació de Rússia amb el segle XXI. Els contes parlen de Rússia des de Rússia, lluny dels corrents que intenten fer desaparèixer el lloc en el no-lloc o diluir el jo i el nosaltres en les societats líquides. Són contes físics, concrets, els personatges no tenen ni les angoixes existencials franceses, ni los angeles ironia servil, ni el postmodernisme ubic que dilueix formes i identitats.

Premi Ciutat de Barcelona 2009
Premi de l. a. crítica 2009

Seminal research of decadence in Europe and the USA with texts.

This selection of exploratory items, brief tales, and reflections used to be initially released in Zurich in 1936. It used to be the final quantity Robert Musil released ahead of his unexpected dying in 1942. Musil had began to fathom the impossibility of com- pleting his huge masterpiece the fellow with no characteristics and this quantity finds a greatly diverse point of his paintings. Musil observes a fly’s tragic fight with flypaper, the laughter of a horse; he friends via microscopes and telescopes, dissecting either huge and small. Musil’s quest for the fundamental is a voyage into the minute.