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• ix • Introduction: Farewell to Dragons: A Literature of Doubt • essay by Franz Rottensteiner
• 1 • The Slaying of the Dragon • (1965) • short story by Dino Buzzati (trans. of L'uccisione del drago 1939)
• 20 • Axolotl • (1967) • short story by
  Julio Cortázar^?Julio Cortazar
  (trans. of Axolotl 1956)
• 28 • The Lottery in Babylon • (1973) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La lotería en Babilonia 1941)
• 37 • With the Gypsy Girls • novelette by Mircea Eliade (trans. of
  La țigănci^?La tiganci
  La tsiganci
  1969)
• 91 • Aura • (1965) • novelette by Carlos Fuentes (trans. of Aura 1962)
• 132 • Adam, One Afternoon • (1957) • short story by Italo Calvino (trans. of Un pomeriggio, Adamo 1949)
• 146 • Story in a Mirror • (1955) • short story by Ilse Aichinger (trans. of Spiegelgeschichte 1952)
• 158 • The Drowned Giant • (1964) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 173 • The Emerald • (1979) • novelette by Donald Barthelme
• 209 • Further Confessions • (1977) • novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• 235 • The Mask • (1977) • novella by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
  (trans. of Maska 1976) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
• 299 • Biographical Notes on the Authors (The Slaying of the Dragon) • essay by Franz Rottensteiner [as by uncredited]