SHORT STORIES THAT YOU READ AGAIN

Read them both, dys. Enjoyed them both.

Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

I agree that age and experience can alter or even expand one's perspective. I too have had the experience of different perceptions on rereading works of literature at widely separated intervasls - but not with Kafka.

Thurber has been one of my favorites for short stories. I love "University Days"

Yeah, and "The Night the Bed Fell".

I like short stories and have read some of the mentioned stories and don´t know some of the mentioned authors.
Reading short stories in bed is a good thing. I have Scandinavian authors, who might not have been translated.
I have noticed that German authors don´t write as many short stories as Scandinavian or English speaking autors.
Now and then on a nasty fall night I like to take out M.R. James The Best Ghost Stories. I like his way of telling a story, the language and the old fashioned style he has.
I also like Dorothy Parker.
Should you ever get across a book by Judith Hermann - don´t even start to read her short stories.

Love James Thurber. University Days was hilarious soccer George. All he could see was his eye in the microscope. Also like the dog that bit people.

Strange, I just did Beware of the Dog by Raold Dahl on the radio thread.

Also liked To Build a Fire by Jack London.

A Piece of String by Guy de Maupassant was sad but excellent.

I think I must have read every one of Poe's short stories.

Some of my favorites include The Cask of Amontillado
The Masque of the Red Death
The Fall of the House of Usher
Hop Frog.

I could go on and on.

Letty, I'm embarrassed I didn't think of Poe.

The Tell Tale Heart

And yet Kafka was barely able to get through his first public reading of the Metamorphosis, because he couldn't stop laughing. Keeping this in mind might impact your experience next time you read it (such was the case with me), but perhaps it won't at all.

But while things end badly for Gregor, it's his family that undergoes a truly meaningful metamorphosis, which many people forget. Or perhaps they don't buy it. But the last few pages really are quite sunny.

Great thread. I'll be back.