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Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology

David Young & Keith Hollaman

First published 1984
Publisher Longman
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Casper David Friedrich
Pages viii+519
ISBN 058228452X

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  • 1984 per number line
  • First printing per number line
  • Month of publication from Amazon.com as of 2024-11-30
  • "Front cover art is a reproduction of Casper [sic] David Friedrich's (1774-1840) Mann und Frau den Mond betrachtend (Man and woman gazing at the moon), painted 1830-1835" per copyright page
  • LCCN per copyright page
  • There is a brief introduction to each author, on a separate page, prior to the author's story
  • Translators are credited on the last page of each translated story

Searching by ISBN: 058228452X

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology) David Young Essay
11 The Nose Nikolai Gogol Novelette
33 The Porcelain Doll Leo Tolstoy Short Story
39 The Wardrobe Thomas Mann Short Story
49 A Tale of the Cavalry Hugo von Hofmannsthal Short Story
59 The Jolly Corner Henry James Novelette
89 The Death of Chamberlain Brigge Rainer Maria Rilke Short Fiction
93 The Hand Rainer Maria Rilke Short Fiction
99 Odour of Chrysanthemums D. H. Lawrence Short Story
117 The Blind Man D. H. Lawrence Short Story
135 A Country Doctor Franz Kafka Short Story
141 The Bucket Rider Franz Kafka Short Story
147 The Sin of Jesus Isaac Babel Short Story
153 Lyompa Yuri Olesha Short Story
159 The Egyptian Stamp (excerpt) Osip Emilievich Mandelstam Short Fiction
165 The Great Frost Virginia Woolf Short Fiction
171 The Street of Crocodiles Bruno Schulz Short Story
181 The Visit to the Museum Vladimir Nabokov Short Story
191 New Islands María Luisa Bombal Short Story
209 In the Land of Magic (excerpt) Henri Michaux Short Fiction
217 The Old People William Faulkner Short Story
235 Moon Lake Eudora Welty Novelette
267 The Piano Aníbal Monteiro Machado Short Story
285 The Aleph Jorge Luis Borges Short Story
297 The South Jorge Luis Borges Short Story
305 My Life with the Wave Octavio Paz Short Story
313 The Enormous Radio John Cheever Short Story
325 The Guest Vjekoslav Kaleb Short Story
335 Gogol's Wife Tommaso Landolfi Short Story
347 Major Aranda's Hand Alfonso Reyes Short Story
355 Axolotl Julio Cortázar Short Story
361 The Night Face Up Julio Cortázar Short Story
371 Journey to the Seed Alejo Carpentier Short Story
385 The Smallest Woman in the World Clarice Lispector Short Story
393 Aura Carlos Fuentes Novelette
421 In the Village Elizabeth Bishop Short Story
439 The Distance of the Moon Italo Calvino Short Story
451 Invisible Cities (excerpt) Italo Calvino Short Fiction
457 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Gabriel García Márquez Short Story
463 Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles Gabriel García Márquez Short Story
473 Cloud Maker Robert Escarpit Short Story
483 Views of My Father Weeping Donald Barthelme Short Story
495 The Angels Milan Kundera Short Fiction