If you have read some of my other posts, surely you have noticed that the story is one of my favorite genres and, as such, I always find myself immersed in them in a certain way, either when it comes to bringing them to life or, of course, to discover them.
Stories still have many prejudices to get rid of, but luckily there are more and more readers who succumb to the short literature contained in the same book, which not only allows us to enjoy reading more in these fast-paced times, but also it provides the reader with a pocket in which many different stories can fit.
Many famous authors (and not so much) have written more than one book of stories, while others, directly, have stood out for being great "storytellers", a word that would surely sound much better in any other language than ours. But since what matters are the lyrics themselves, here are these greats story books that you have to read.
Twelve Pilgrim Tales, by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
Gabo wrote more than one book of stories, among them Blue dog eyes, preamble to the Macondo that we all knew in One Hundred Years of Solitude or, especially, these Twelve Pilgrim Tales composed of several stories collected especially during the 70s and 80s in which the stories of various Latin American characters in European territory are intermingled, from a retired Caribbean president to the couple who travels by car to Paris on The trail of your blood in the snow, possibly the best story of the Nobel Prize.
Tales, by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
One of the most famous storytellers in history was, without a doubt, Chekhov, author whose Tales is a constant number 1 in the lists of books of the genre thanks to the brilliant translation of Victor Gallego and the presence of sixty stories written by the Russian author between 1883 and 1902. Stories in which the loves, miseries and longings of a tsarist Russia come together that no one describes as Anton.
El Aleph, by Jorge Luis Borges
El Aleph, by Jorge Luis Borges, one of the best storybooks in history.
Along with Fictions, The Aleph is one of the most important short story anthologies of the Argentine author. Kings, Nazis or judges intermingle in this narrative odyssey in which Borges's intention to plunge us into the cracks of the world and embrace an unreality that surrounds each and every one of the seventeen stories in this title prevails. Essential.
Cathedral, by Raymond Carver
He is known as dirty realism, which emerged in the United States in the 70s, takes place in specific settings and tries to turn ordinary and vulgar characters into little heroes of their own (and mediocre) existence. A context explored by authors such as Salinger or, specifically, Carver, who gathers twelve stories in this Cathedral in which they fit from a father who leaves for Europe in search of his son's forgiveness to an alcoholic who goes to the coast to rehabilitate himself.
Interpreter of emotions, by Jhumpa Lahiri
Of Bengali origins, Lahiri is a London author consecrated in the Anglo-Saxon world for her stories, which usually cover the relationship between the Hindu community and the West, specifically the immigrant Hindus from the United States, proof of a globalization of a thousand nuances embraced with passion and sensitivity on the part of this author. Interpreter of emotions is a work of nine stories whose title corresponds to a story in which an Indo-American couple make a tour of India guided by a young man who falls in love with his wife. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in the 2000.
Arabian Nights
Storybook, compilation of folk stories. . . The most famous book in the Arab world It has been designated in many ways although, as a whole, it remains a compendium of exotic fables narrated as a narrative matryoshka by the young Scheherazade, the last lover of a sultan determined to behead all the young women of the kingdom for revenge. The incursion of Arabic literature in the West came with this work necessary in the life of any reader who will continue to marvel at those geniuses, princesses, bazaars and bandits that feed the pages of this universal work and a clear source of inspiration for other storybooks such as, for example, Tales of Eva Luna, one of my favorite books.
These story books that you have to read They will become your new allies thanks to the variety of stories they include and the ability to dazzle a reader who will devour in one go that story whose length is not incompatible with quality, suspense and, of course, the inspiration for them to You too, writers, get down to work with that story that still resists you.
What is your favorite storybook?