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George Saunders’s book on short stories arrives in Spanish bookstores
George Saunders’s book on short stories is now available in Spanish in Spain, five years after it was first published.
The writer, who teaches creative writing at Syracuse University in New York state, drew on a course he taught intermittently for 20 years.
When the course was discontinued, he gathered and reread his notes, turning them into a book about short-story writing.
The book combines stories with essays analysing them, including work by Russian writers such as Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev and Gogol.
Saunders says storytelling is a basic human need and that readers write to him seeking guidance.
The book became a bestseller and now sells more than when it first appeared, a success Saunders says he does not fully understand.
George Saunders’s book on short stories, Un baño en una laguna mientras llueve, has arrived in Spanish bookstores.
The Spanish edition is published by the independent publisher Capitán Swing.
The book brings together stories and essays in which Saunders closely analyzes short stories.
Saunders says it grew out of notes from a short-story course he taught intermittently over 20 years.
He said he compiled the notes after learning the course would no longer be offered.
- Who
- George Saunders, an American writer who teaches creative writing at Syracuse University.
- What
- His book Un baño en una laguna mientras llueve has been published in Spanish.
- When
- It arrived in Spanish bookstores on the day the article was published, November 8, 2026.
- Where
- Spanish bookstores.
- Why
- Saunders compiled notes from a short-story course after learning it would no longer be offered.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Saunders intermittently taught a course on narrative forms focused on the short story.
Saunders compiled and reread his notes for the book.
The Spanish edition arrived in bookstores.
- Author
- George Saunders
- Spanish title
- Un baño en una laguna mientras llueve
- Publisher
- Capitán Swing
- Course duration
- 20 years, intermittently
- Publication location
- Spanish bookstores
What people are saying
Telling stories is a primordial need
Over a period of 20 years, intermittently, I taught a course on narrative forms focused on the short story
One day I was told that the class I had taught so many times would no longer be offered, and I was overcome by a deep feeling of anticipatory nostalgia