| Description |
vii, 519 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The nose / Nikolai Gogol -- The porcelain doll / Leo Tolstoy -- The wardrobe / Thomas Mann -- A tale of the cavalry / Hugo von Hofmannsthal -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- The death of Chamberlain Brigge (excerpt). The hand (excerpt) / Rainer Marie Rilke -- Odour of chrysanthemums. The blind man / D.H. Lawrence -- A country doctor. The bucket rider / Franz Kafka -- The sin of Jesus / Isaac Babel -- Lyompa / Yuri Olesha -- The Egyptian stamp (excerpt) / Osip Emilievich Mandelstam -- The great frost (excerpt) / Virginia Woolf -- The street of crocodiles / Bruno Schulz -- The visit to the museum / Vladimir Nabokov -- New islands / María Luisa Bombal -- In the land of magic (excerpt) / Henri Michaux -- The old people / William Faulkner -- Moon Lake / Eudora Welty -- The piano / Aníbal Monteiro Machado -- The aleph. The south / Jorge Luis Borges -- My life with the wave / Octavio Paz -- The enormous radio / John Cheever -- The guest / Vjekoslav Kaleb -- Gogol's wife / Tommaso Landolfi -- Major Aranda's hand / Alfonso Reyes -- Axolotl. The night face up / Julio Cortázar -- Journey to the seed / Alejo Carpentier -- The smallest woman in the world / Clarice Lispector -- Aura / Carlos Fuentes -- In the village / Elizabeth Bishop -- The distance of the moon. Invisible cities (excerpt) / Italo Calvino -- A very old man with enormous wings. Blacamán the Good, vendor of miracles / Gabriel García Márquez -- Cloud maker / Robert Escarpit -- Views of my father weeping / Donald Barthelme -- The angels (excerpt) / Milan Kundera |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Magic realism (Literature)
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| Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Author |
Hollaman, Keith.
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Young, David, 1936-
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| LC no. |
83019974 |
| ISBN |
058228452X (paperback) |
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