In recent years, short literature, especially short stories and stories, has experienced a new golden age thanks to social networks and times in which instant content finds its place again. Considered one of the flagship genres of the XNUMXth century, a time when the story was an important component of newsletters and newspapers until the rise of the novel, these best stories ever they invite us to browse these brief but different and unique stories.
The trace of your blood in the snow, by Gabriel García Márquez
Included in the collection Twelve Pilgrim Tales published in 1992, The Trace of Your Blood in the Snow presents two newlyweds who start their honeymoon from Spain to Paris. However, the sexual pleasure experienced by Nena Daconte, the protagonist, is linked to a blood whose trace remains throughout the European winter. Marked by a final twist that defines the potential of the work, the best story of Gabo confirms the good work of the Colombian writer for a short literature from which some of his great novels would derive.
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El Aleph, by Jorge Luis Borges
Borges was always storyteller, thinker and philosopher of a world that he interpreted in his own way, in the most genuine way possible. To his credit are stories as wonderful as Funes, the memorable one, The circular ruins, The south but, especially, The Aleph, a story that would give the title to his most popular collection of stories. Published in 1945, The Aleph speaks of eternity, that incessant search by an author who locates the point where all the universes meet in a basement. Pure metaphysical charm.
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Axolotl, by Julio Cortázar
Master builder as Rayuela but also from a collection of stories for posterity, Cortázar liked to play with the duality of those little things, with dreams in which you never know who is a dreamer or dreamed of. In the case of Axolotl, a salamander of Mexican origin that the author goes to visit every day in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, the writer evokes a metaphor as solitary as it is shocking in the purest style of The night face up, another of his great short stories.
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The kiss, by Antón Chekhov
Chekhov wrote more than six hundred stories, confirming its status as one of the most famous storytellers in history. Witness of that cold Russia whose stories tried to find a pinch of warmth, The Kiss, the story that gives its name to one of his anthologies, is one of the best examples. A story whose protagonist, Riabóvich, is an officer who receives a kiss from an unknown woman during a tea party organized by a farmer. As shocking as it is magical. Unique.
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Cinderella, by Charles Perrault
Yes, the Children's Stories they are possibly the most famous representatives of a short literature that we have all grown up with. And when we look back Charles Perrault is, along with the Brothers Grimm, the best storyteller for children. Choosing the best of all is practically an impossible task, which is why we are left with Cinderella, the universal tale of the young woman exploited by her stepmother and in love with the prince of her dreams. Included within the collection Mother Goose Tales Published in 1697, Cinderella is also famous for the two Disney adaptations released in 1950 and 2015 respectively.
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Wanted a Woman, by Charles Bukowski
Wizard of dirty realism, the German-born American writer gave us a list of stories from which choosing the best one is not an easy task. Wanted a woman, story included in the collection South of No North published in 1973, it talks about the protagonist's search for the perfect woman in a murky world, a man who travels the city of Los Angeles who has played such a crucial role in the writer's work. Indispensable.
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Adrift, by Horacio Quiroga
Compared repeatedly with Edgar Allan Poe, the Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga created a work marked by darkness, those of a nature opposed to man himself. An example of this belief is one of his best stories, Adrift, in which its protagonist, Paulino, is bitten by a snake on the way to a small town on the Paraná River. The title of the story itself is, in turn, the best metaphor for a tremendous ending that defines the work of this tragic author.
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How Wang Fo Was Saved by Marguerite Yourcenar
In 1947, the Belgian playwright Marguerite Yourcenar published Oriental tales, a set of stories that adapted different myths of the world, from Hindu to Greek through Chinese How Wang Fo was saved. Although at the time some critics cataloged the story as a clumsy imitation of Chinese narrative, the passage of time has crowned it as one of the most curious stories of the XNUMXth century. A journey through "the path of a Thousand Curves and Ten Thousand Colors" through the eyes of Wang Fó and his disciple Ling that reveals part of Chinese history and art in an amazing way.
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Towards the Shore, by Jhumpa Lahiri
Lahiri, writer of Bengali origin Pulitzer Prize Winner, has become one of the best voices of the Indian diaspora of his generation, giving the world works such as his obligatory collection of stories Unusual Land. Composed of eight stories, the work published in 2000 is made up of a first block of individual stories and three that make up the European love story of two characters of Hindu origin, Hema and Kaushik. A romance whose outcome we know in the third story, Towards the shore, the best proof of a capacity to tell stories as powerful as its devastating ending.
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What are the best stories in history for you?
I suggest you change the title, because if for you the stories you cite are the best stories in history, then you have a long way to go. Greetings!
Poor, I think they are the only books in your library!
The only but the best ignorant