Realism - A Collection Of Short Stories

A curated collection of short stories in the genre of literary realism. Stories that represent reality by portraying everyday experiences as they are in real life. No glitz, no glamour, only life as it truthfully unfolds, sometimes in drama and sometimes in monotony.

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Germany

Michael Lentz

Motherdeath

death - melancholy - mother and son - sickness

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USA

Elizabeth McCracken

Some Terpsichore

female authors - music - relationships - violence

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France

Guy de Maupassant

Two Friends

friendship - melancholy - tragedy - war

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Germany

Barbara Honigmann

Double Grave

history - holocaust - philosophy

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Argentina

Tomás Sánchez Bellocchio

Interruption of Service

class-war - funny - guilt - poverty - working class

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Romania

Ilka Papp Zakor

Caviar

class-gap - death - surreal - tragedy - violence

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USA

Herman Melville

The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids

American culture - American literature - classics - political

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Argentina

Ariel Magnus

Doing Your Duty

detective - Latin America - mystery - poverty - realism

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Bolivia

Magela Baudoin

The Red Ribbon

memories - murder - rape - tragedy - violence

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

An Alcoholic Case

classics - melancholy - realism

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Romania

Augustin Cupsa

The Cold

communism - Eastern Europe - father and son - history

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USA

Phil Klay

Ten Kliks South

Al-Qaeda - guilt - realism - soldiers - war - witty

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