El Pais had a brief take on some of the best short stories of the 20th Century. It is a very anglophone list, but interesting as a view from the other side of the Atlantic.
| Raymond Carver |
Cathedral (1983) |
| James Joyce |
| The Dead (1914) |
| Henry James |
| The Beast in the Jungle (1903) |
| Juan Rulfo |
| No oyes ladrar a los perros (1953) |
| Julio Cortázar |
| Graffiti (1981) |
| Ramón del Valle-Inclán |
| El miedo (1902) |
| Truman Capote |
| Deslumbramiento (1982) |
| Jorge Luis Borges |
| El espejo y la máscara (1975) |
| J. D. Salinger |
| The Laughing Man (1953) |
| Francis Scott Fitzgerald |
| Return to Babilonia (1929) |
| Ingeborg Bachmann |
| Problems, Problems (1972) |
| Katherine Mansfield |
| The Fly (1922) |
| Ring Lardner |
| Champion (1924) |
| Medardo Fraile |
| The Album (1959) |
| Flannery O’Connor |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) |
| Katherine Mansfield |
| In the Bay(1921) |
By The Firelight 