Lets agree that a short story is anything up to 60 pages, which is stretching it a bit anyway. Which is the most depressing, but worth-reading, published short story you have ever read?
I can readily think of three, all of which i consider to be masterpieces.
-Flowers for Algernon was a story i read in early highschool, for the english class i was in. It made an instant impression on me, reaching a pinacle in two deaths: the somatic death of Algernon, and the mental death of the narrator. A glimpse into happiness deteriorated rapidly to decay.
-I recently read, in english (i probably also have it in Greek) the short story "That pig of a Morin". It is by Guy de Maupassant. The plot is about the small-time merchant Morin, from the french provinces, visiting Paris and there assaulting a woman under the ill-conceived view that she wanted him to kiss her. Later on some delegates meet with the girl's father, but one of them ends up kissing the girl, in much the same circumstances. However this time he is not met with disgust.
-One of my favorite stories of all time is The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol. It is an early classic of Russian literature of the 19th century, often cited as the trigger for it.
In it Akaky Akakyevic (literally means "harmless") is an elderly clerk who has only one dream in life: to buy a new overcoat, since his old ones is falling apart. He does succeed to, after many financial troubles, but then fate deals him a fatal blow...
I can readily think of three, all of which i consider to be masterpieces.
-Flowers for Algernon was a story i read in early highschool, for the english class i was in. It made an instant impression on me, reaching a pinacle in two deaths: the somatic death of Algernon, and the mental death of the narrator. A glimpse into happiness deteriorated rapidly to decay.
-I recently read, in english (i probably also have it in Greek) the short story "That pig of a Morin". It is by Guy de Maupassant. The plot is about the small-time merchant Morin, from the french provinces, visiting Paris and there assaulting a woman under the ill-conceived view that she wanted him to kiss her. Later on some delegates meet with the girl's father, but one of them ends up kissing the girl, in much the same circumstances. However this time he is not met with disgust.
-One of my favorite stories of all time is The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol. It is an early classic of Russian literature of the 19th century, often cited as the trigger for it.
In it Akaky Akakyevic (literally means "harmless") is an elderly clerk who has only one dream in life: to buy a new overcoat, since his old ones is falling apart. He does succeed to, after many financial troubles, but then fate deals him a fatal blow...
