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Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology

A treasure trove of unusual fiction spanning authors from Gogol and Kafka through Woolf and Nabokov to Calvino, Garcia Marquez, and Barthelme. A poet's companion, a student's delight, great bedside reading.

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Magical Realist Fiction includes:

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). The hand (excerpt) by Rainer Marie Rilke

Odour of chrysanthemums. The blind man by D.H. Lawrence

A country doctor. The bucket rider by Franz Kafka

The sin of Jesus by Isaac Babel

Lyompa by Yuri Olesha

The Egyptian stamp (excerpt) by Osip Emilievich Mandelstam

The great frost (excerpt) by Virginia Woolf

The street of crocodiles by Bruno Schulz

The visit to the museum by Vladimir Nabokov

New islands by Maria Luisa Bombal

In the land of magic (excerpt) by Henri Michaux

The old people by William Faulkner

Moon Lake by Eudora Welty

The piano by Anibal Monteiro Machado

The aleph. 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. The night face up by Julio Cortazar

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. Invisible cities (excerpt) by Italo Calvino

A very old man with enormous wings. Blacaman the Good, vendor of miracles by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Cloud maker by Robert Escarpit

Views of my father weeping by Donald Barthelme

The angels (excerpt) by Milan Kundera

Audience
adult
Length
long · 528 pages

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