One Minute Stories
by István Örkény
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A classic of Eastern European literature, the short stories of Örkény are reduced texts whose main features are humor and absurdity. However, in several stories of this collection he denounces the calamities of war and moves to deeper reflection.Tags
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One minute stories is a collection of very short stories written between 1958 and 1979.
They are hilarious, witty, ironic, sarcastic and ... short.
The first story is titled "User instructions" and it says that "if you don't understand a story, read it again. If you still don't understand it, it is the story's fault."
I did not get them all, but the not-so-good ones were just a minute's read, so one does not need to feel bad about the time spent on them. On the other hand, a few of them were very good: funny, touching, thought provoking, and in some cases even mind blowing.
They are hilarious, witty, ironic, sarcastic and ... short.
The first story is titled "User instructions" and it says that "if you don't understand a story, read it again. If you still don't understand it, it is the story's fault."
I did not get them all, but the not-so-good ones were just a minute's read, so one does not need to feel bad about the time spent on them. On the other hand, a few of them were very good: funny, touching, thought provoking, and in some cases even mind blowing.
Cuentos hiperbreves y llenos de humor de un interesante autor húngaro.
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Very short stories
39 works; 2 members
Author Information
70+ Works 515 Members
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- One Minute Stories
- Original language
- Hungarian
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 894.51133 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia Finno-Ugric languages Ugric languages Hungarian Hungarian fiction 1900–2000
- LCC
- PH3291 .O75 .O48 — Language and Literature Uralic languages. Basque language Uralic. Basque Hungarian
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 221
- Popularity
- 146,876
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (4.00)
- Languages
- 10 — English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 45
