Melancholy - A Collection Of Short Stories

A curated collection of short stories surrounding themes of melancholy. Some call it the black bile, some call it the blues, or weltschmerz, in all its nomenclatures, melancholy and depression are central to human experience. This collection features selected literary expressions of this universal condition, woven by authors from all cultures and spanning all periods.

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Japan

Sayaka Murata

A Clean Marriage

family - female authors - love - marriage - relationships - writing

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Tove Ditlevsen

Two Women

female authors - loneliness - realism - writing

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Israel

Ofir Oz

It was nice not to meet you

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USA

Ben Marcus

Rollingwood

American culture - divorce - father and son - parenthood

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Japan

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

The Cold

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Libya

Muhammad al-Asfar

The Story of a Sock

allegory - arabic literature - existentialism - family - love - poverty - surreal

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Israel

Ilana Hammerman

Seeing them see the sea

contemplative - Israeli-Palestinian - political

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Israel

Esty G. Haim

A Black Dancer in a One-person Dance Company

coming of age - melancholy - sexuality

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Russia

Leonid Andreyev

The City

alienation - contemplative - loneliness - melancholy - Russia - urban

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Canada

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Emily Of New Moon – Chapter 5

emily of new moon

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Tunisia

Aziz Jamal Yahyawi

One of Them

allegory - arabic literature - existentialism - post apocalypse - urban - violence

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Canada

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Emily of New Moon

classics - emily of new moon - female authors - kids - kids-coming of age

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