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Synopsis

This capacious anthology has selections from the authors you would expect to find, from others you may be less familiar with, and from writers you might not expect to show up in this company. The result is a treasure trove of unusual fiction, one of the most exciting anthologies to appear in the last decade. This is a poet's companion, a student's delight, great bedside reading: the kind of book you'd take to a desert island!

Table of Contents:

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

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