Comments on: Review of ‘That Glimpse of Truth: 100 of the Finest Short Stories Ever Written’ chosen by David Miller https://nsfordwriter.com/that-glimpse-of-truth-100-of-the-finest-short-stories-ever-written-chosen-by-david-miller/ Writer, reader, blogger Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:41:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 By: nsford https://nsfordwriter.com/that-glimpse-of-truth-100-of-the-finest-short-stories-ever-written-chosen-by-david-miller/#comment-4502 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:41:53 +0000 http://nsfordwriter.com/?p=3889#comment-4502 In reply to Diana.

I had to make notes on every story or I wouldn’t remember them for my review 😉 As many of these stories are supposed to be classics, I thought it was worth noting them all down. That’s right – no Japanese authors. I suppose one could look for an anthology of them but it would have been better to have more of a global selection. I’m not discounting Knut Hamsun, I will consider reading one of his novels 🙂 I haven’t seen The Red Shoes film, I will look out for it… I would expect it to be disturbing anyway. Thanks for reading my blog post!

]]> By: Diana https://nsfordwriter.com/that-glimpse-of-truth-100-of-the-finest-short-stories-ever-written-chosen-by-david-miller/#comment-4501 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:28:58 +0000 http://nsfordwriter.com/?p=3889#comment-4501 I really love the fact that you mentioned every short story in the book and your opinion! Very interesting and useful. I am not a fan of short stories in general, but in the past months have been reading some. What I noticed above is that there are few stories from authors whose native language is not English, apart from very predictable like Chekhov, Gogol and Kafka, etc (I agree with you in that respect – it is a very conservative selection) and absolutely none from Japanese authors? Japanese writers who, incidentally, wrote some of the best short stories ever?

If it is your first time reading Knut Hamsun you may be pleasantly surprised by his other books, which I recommend. His “The Growth of the Soil”, “Mysteries” and “Hunger” are really great. Have you seen the film “The Red Shoes”, btw? It follows the fairy-tale more or less, and one of my favourites because of the cinematography, but has a disturbing ending.

]]> By: nsford https://nsfordwriter.com/that-glimpse-of-truth-100-of-the-finest-short-stories-ever-written-chosen-by-david-miller/#comment-4495 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:36:25 +0000 http://nsfordwriter.com/?p=3889#comment-4495 In reply to Lashaan Balasingam @ Bookidote.

It’s never going to please everyone, that’s for sure… I was really looking forward to some great short stories but most of these weren’t to my taste at all 🙁

]]> By: Lashaan Balasingam @ Bookidote https://nsfordwriter.com/that-glimpse-of-truth-100-of-the-finest-short-stories-ever-written-chosen-by-david-miller/#comment-4494 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:13:57 +0000 http://nsfordwriter.com/?p=3889#comment-4494 As you’ve pointed out, I feel like a perfect anthology is an impossible task… And this one seems to fail miserably in collecting the finest of them out there! 😮

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