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Reading Club - Short Stories
By: Allie Date: August 21, 2019, 1:38 pm
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Hey, folks. What's the story?
I've just stumbled across a translation of one of my favourite
short stories in my native language, "O Homem que sabia
Javanês", by the esteemed author Lima Barreto, so I decided to
share it with you and thought it'd be nice if I could read
something you like in your native/target language.
Let's share some good stories and improve our literary
knowledge!
Here is mine
English:
HTML https://ashortspell.com/the-man-who-spoke-javanese-by-lima-barreto/
Portuguese:
HTML http://www.portugues.seed.pr.gov.br/arquivos/File/leit_online/lima23.pdf
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Re: Reading Club - Short Stories
By: Nikola Date: August 21, 2019, 2:39 pm
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Count me in. I'm a bit busy in the next few days so bear with me
:)
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Re: Reading Club - Short Stories
By: Allie Date: August 21, 2019, 2:48 pm
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I will be waiting patiently
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Re: Reading Club - Short Stories
By: Nikola Date: August 21, 2019, 2:52 pm
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Do I need to avoid this thread in the meantime? Will there be
spoilers?
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Re: Reading Club - Short Stories
By: NealC Date: August 21, 2019, 3:13 pm
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Great stuff HB!
Even with my short acquaintance with academia and government I
can see how that story could be true :-)
Here is my favorite short story in English
HTML http://tkinter.smig.net/Outings/RosemountGhosts/Babylon.htm
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Re: Reading Club - Short Stories
By: Nikola Date: August 23, 2019, 5:52 am
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Human Being, I've read it now. It's a cool little story. I agree
with Neal that it is quite believable, in fact it reminded me of
the Sokal affair (aka Sokal Hoax). I don't know how well-known
it is because I only heard about it a few weeks ago. In 1996, a
professor of physics Alan Sokal managed to get his article
"Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative
Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" published in an academic
journal. The article was full of nonsense and Sokal did it to
point out at the increasing intellectual laziness among American
academics. Not that it couldn't happen elsewhere.
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Re: Reading Club - Short Stories
By: Nikola Date: August 23, 2019, 6:35 am
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I couldn't find a short story in Czech I'd like to share because
in most cases their English translations aren't available online
but I found the first pages of a book I really like called
Saturnin. It was written by Zdeněk Jirotka in 1942 but it
has a "First Republic" feel to it, that was the 1918-1938 era
when it wasn't unusual even for some Czech people to have a
servant. I'm sorry the document ends in the middle of a
sentence.
Oh and I'd love to know which group people feel they belong to
according to the doughnut theory.
HTML https://obalky.kosmas.cz/ArticleFiles/241654/auto_preview.pdf/FILE/Saturnin_Ukazka.pdf
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Re: Reading Club - Short Stories
By: Allie Date: August 23, 2019, 3:14 pm
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Thanks for the stories, guys!
I like mine exactly because it sounds so credible.
Had I not read it, but heard it from someone, I wouldn’t have
doubted its verisimilitude.
I don’t know in the English translation, but in the Portuguese
one you kind of feel happy the Baron was scammed as they had so
much fun together.
Con artists deserve a topic of their own. The last one I read
about was Anna Delvey in NY.
@Neal
I won’t say much as I wouldn’t like to spoil anything, but I
really like the ending.
@Nikola
I won’t be able to read it now, but I will ASAP as I can hardly
wait to know more about this doughnut theory
In case I don’t connect tomorrow, let me wish you guys a great
weekend
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Re: Reading Club - Short Stories
By: NealC Date: August 23, 2019, 5:16 pm
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Here is another good one. If I wasn't lazy I would find it for
you in its original French.
HTML http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/mfalcone.html
Nicola, I liked the story, not sure if I could Read a whole book
in that style. I am doughnut number 2, tho my fantasy would be
very detailed.
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Re: Reading Club - Short Stories
By: Nikola Date: August 24, 2019, 4:51 am
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OK, Allie, do let us know. I doubt you're type 1. I think Steven
is type 1 :) and I suspect Pasha might actually be type 3.
Neal, it's that kind of style, you either love it or hate it. I
like that it has a hint of Britishness to it. And I think I'm
the same type as you. I'm going to read your stories today.
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