Reading path
The Iceberg
Around 1910 the short story went quiet. The plots fell away, the endings stopped explaining themselves, and everything important sank below the waterline: Hemingway claimed the dignity of an iceberg comes from only one-eighth of it showing. These are the stories that taught the form to withhold, from a Dublin party where the snow begins to a library in Buenos Aires containing every possible book. Read slowly. Most of it is under the surface.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. The DeadJames Joyce, 1914
- 2. ArabyJames Joyce, 1914
- 3. RashomonRyūnosuke Akutagawa, 1915
- 4. A Madman's DiaryLu Xun, 1918
- 5. In the Penal ColonyFranz Kafka, 1919
- 6. Winesburg, OhioSherwood Anderson, 1919
- 7. The Garden PartyKatherine Mansfield, 1922
- 8. Miss BrillKatherine Mansfield, 1922
- 9. A Hunger ArtistFranz Kafka, 1922
- 10. Big Two-Hearted RiverErnest Hemingway, 1925
- 11. My First GooseIsaac Babel, 1926
- 12. The Dancing Girl of IzuYasunari Kawabata, 1926
- 13. Hills Like White ElephantsErnest Hemingway, 1927
- 14. The Street of CrocodilesBruno Schulz, 1934
- 15. The Library of BabelJorge Luis Borges, 1941