Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Nikolai Gogol: The Nose
Leo Tolstoy: The Porcelain Doll
Thomas Mann: The Wardrobe
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal: A Tale of the Cavalry
Henry James: The Jolly Corner
Rainer Maria Rilke: The Death of Chamberlain Brigge (excerpt)
Rainer Maria Rilke: The Hand (excerpt)
D. H. Lawrence: Odour of Chrysanthemums
D. H. LAWRENCE: The Blind Man
Franz Kafka: A Country Doctor
Franz Kafka: The Bucket Rider
Isaac Babel: The Sin of Jesus
Yuri Olesha: Lyompa
Osip Emilievich Mandelstam: The Egyptian Stamp (excerpt)
Virginia Woolf: The Great Frost (excerpt)
Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles
Vladimir Nabokov: The Visit to the Museum
María Luisa Bombal: New Islands
Henri Michaux: In the Land of Magic (excerpt)
William Faulkner: The Old People
Eudora Welty: Moon Lake
Aníbal Monteiro Machado: The Piano
Jorge Luis Borges: The Aleph
Jorge Louis Borges: The South
Octavio Paz: My Life with the Wave
John Cheever: The Enormous Radio
Vjekoslav Kaleb: The Guest
Tommaso Landolfi: gogol’s Wife
Alfonso Reyes: Major Aranda’s Hand
Julio Cortázar: Axolotl
Julio Cortázar: The Night Face Up
Alejo Carpentier: Journey to the Seed
Clarice Lispector: The Smallest Woman in the World
Carlos Fuentes: Aura
Elizabeth Bishop: In the Village
Italo Calvino: The Distance of the Moon
Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities (excerpt)
Gabriel García Marquez: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Gabriel García Marquez: Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles
Robert Escarpit: Cloud Maker
Donald Barthelme: Views of My Father Weeping
Milan Kundera: The Angels (excerpt)
