Magical realist fiction
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. 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