2:11 am in Pamuk, Orhan, Turkey, fiction, short stories | No Comments
by Orhan Pamuk (1990)
Embarking on a journey to find his missing wife and her ex-husband, Galip obsessively searches for (and drowns in) endless possible meanings and leads.
4:50 am in Bolaño Roberto, Latin America, fiction, short stories | 1 Comment
by Roberto Bolaño. A collection of short stories, written as if witness to a crime.
4:03 am in Eastern/Central Europe, Kiš, Danilo, Recommended, Russia & USSR, fiction, short stories | No Comments
by Danilo Kiš (1983)
A collection of metaphysical short stories set in various times and places, luminously darkened with the themes of fate and death’s impenetrability.
4:36 am in Eastern/Central Europe, Kiš, Danilo, Recommended, Russia & USSR, fiction, short stories | 2 Comments
by Danilo Kiš (1976)
Seven different yet casually interlinked short stories about revolutionaries, mostly centering around the Russian Revolution
10:25 pm in Japan, Rampo, Edogawa, fiction, short stories | No Comments
by Edogawa Rampo (1956)
A lucidly-translated collection of short mystery stories by Japan’s most famous mystery writer.
9:49 pm in Hernández, Felisberto, Latin America, Recommended, fiction, short stories | No Comments
by Felisberto Hernández (1993)
Fifteen short stories of fluid, phantasmagorical animistic worlds where everyday objects take a life of their own, eliciting delicate forgotten responses, thoughts, feelings and memories, all of them inevitably in one way or another relate to a piano.
3:00 am in Gordimer, Nadine, Saramago, Jose, short stories | No Comments
by Nadine Gordimer (ed.) (2004) A collection of stories hand-picked by their world-renowned writers, inadvertently dealing with the subject of sex and death (but not directly with HIV/AIDS) in a myriad of genres.
11:32 pm in Africa, Gordimer, Nadine, Recommended, short stories | 1 Comment
and Other Stories
by Nadine Gordimer (1991).
Stories of (moral and psychological tensions of) life in racially-divided countries written with seemingly no committed specific political ideologies.
10:02 am in Lem, Stanisław, Poland, Recommended, science fiction, short stories | No Comments
Fables for the Cybernetic Age by
Stanisław Lem (1975).
A collection of fairy-tale-ish science fiction stories focusing on the adventures of Trurl and Klapaucius, two best friends and rival intelligent robot “constructors”.
7:00 pm in Italy, Levi, Primo, fiction, short stories | No Comments
by Primo Levi
Narrative is contained within another narrative in this novel, as Faussone, an exuberant rigger, tells his stories of working to a chemist-writer narrator (no doubt Levi’s alter ego):his constructions, an adventurous monkey, a machine that caught stardust, a name gone wrong, overcoming the fear of water, from India, Russia to Alaska.