The Novels of Kim Young-ha
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A list of some of my favorite novellas:
Death in Venice — Thomas Mann
The Turn of the Screw — Henry James
The Metamorphosis — Kafka
Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad
The Invention of Morel — Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Crying of Lot 49 — Thomas Pynchon
The Dead — James Joyce
The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy
Things — Georges Perec
The Watcher — Italo Calvino
The Marquise of O — Heinrich von Kleist
Billy Budd, Sailor — Herman Melville
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter — Cesar Aira
Train Dreams — Denis Johnson
Bonsai — Alejando Zambra
The Walk — Robert Walser
Chess Story — Stefan Zweig
The Lifted Veil — George Eliot
The Girl with the Golden Eyes — Honore de Balzac
The Lime Twig — John Hawkes
And I tossed the question out to Twitter:
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Seize the Day — Saul Bellow
The Ghost Writer — Philip Roth
@darrananderson1
Heart of a Dog — Mikhail Bulgakov
A Country Doctor’s Notebook — Mikhail Bulgakov
@AhabLives
Melanctha — Gertrude Stein
Pale Horse, Pale Rider — Katherine Anne Porter
First Love — Samuel Beckett
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The Old Forest — Peter Taylor
The Beggar Maid — Alice Munro
@biblioklept
Benito Cereno — Herman Melville
Hadji Murad — Leo Tolstoy
Chronicle of a Death Foretold — Gabriel García Márquez
The Bear — William Faulkner
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@wpwend42
The Aspen Papers — Henry James
@kudera
Benito Cereno — Herman Melville
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Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
@IneluctableQuak
Battles in The Desert — Jose Emilio Pacheco
Plus 2 more
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The Pilgrim Hawk — Glenway Wescott
The Letter Left to Me — Joseph McElroy
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The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
Michael Kohlhaas, Heinrich von Kleist
The Golden Pot, E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Rider on the White Horse, Theodor Storm
Lieutenant Gustl, Arthur Schnitzler
Mario and the Magician, Thomas Mann
Cat and Mouse, Gunter Grass
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Billy Budd, Herman Melville
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, R.L. Stevenson
Animal Farm, George Orwell
By Night in Chile, Roberto Bolano
In addition to many already named:
“The Shawl” and “The Messiah of Stockholm” by Cynthia Ozick
“Death in Spring” by Merce Rodoreda
“The Journey of Ibn Fattouma” by Naguib Mahfouz
“The Vet’s Daughter” by Barbara Comyns
“Hour of the Star” by Clarice Lispector
Dammit. Considering that I went to the bookstore last night specifically to buy novellas, I saw this a day late.
“The Duel” by Anton Chekhov should be added to the list. I’d also include “Rita Heyworth and The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Body” by Stephen King. While neither might be included in a list of classic literature, both showcase King at his finest, and served as source material for two excellent films (The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me.) “Bartleby The Scrivener” by Herman Melville should also be mentioned.
Bartleby the Scrivener will always be my number one. More recently: Customer Service by Benoit Duteurtre, Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos, and The Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin. Top notch!
[...] Scott Esposito presents a list of recommended novellas. [...]
Rock Crystal: Adelbert Stifter
The Driver’s Seat: Muriel Spark
A Beleaguered City : Margaret Oliphant
Pelevin’s Omon Ra and Cesar Aira’s The Literary Conference are also excellent.
[...] Novellas (novellae?) to read. [via Conversational Reading] [...]
mikhail zoschenko – before sunrise
haniel long – interlinear to cabeza de vaca
john fuller – flying to nowhere
ivan olbracht – the sorrowful tears of hannah karajich
julien gracq – king cophetua
claudio magris – inferences from a saber
pierre michon – the origin of the world
jaimy gordon – circumspections from an equestrian statue
yury tynanov – lieutenant kije/young vitushishnikov
gerhard roth – the will to sickness
arno schmidt – school for atheists
jose donoso – hell has no limits
alejo carpentier – the kingdom of this world
jaime de angulo – the lariat
james schuyler – alfred & guinevere
nikolai leskov – musk ox
tom pickard – guttersnipe
ermilo abreu gomez – canek
frigyes karinthy – voyage to faremido/capillaria
The Late Bourgeois World by Nadine Gordimer
Party Going and Loving by Henry Green
Lucinella by Lore Segal
Legends of the Fall, The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Brown Dog, and Revenge by Jim Harrison