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• 1 • Introduction (Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology) • essay by David Young
• 11 • The Nose • novelette by
  Николай Гоголь^?Nikolai Gogol
  (trans. of
  Нос^?Nos
  1836) [as by Nikolai Gogol]
• 33 • The Porcelain Doll • (1976) • short story by
  Лев Толстой^?Lev Tolstoy
  (trans. of
  Фарфоровая Кукла^?Farforovaya Kukla
  1863) [as by Leo Tolstoy]
• 39 • The Wardrobe • (1936) • short story by Thomas Mann (trans. of Der Kleiderschrank 1899)
• 49 • A Tale of the Cavalry • (1952) • short story by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (trans. of Reitergeschichte 1899)
• 59 • The Jolly Corner • (1908) • novelette by Henry James
• 89 • The Death of Chamberlain Brigge (excerpt) • short fiction by Rainer Maria Rilke
• 93 • The Hand • short fiction by Rainer Maria Rilke
• 99 • Odour of Chrysanthemums • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 117 • The Blind Man • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 135 • A Country Doctor • (1948) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Ein Landarzt 1918)
• 141 • The Bucket Rider • [
  Der Kübelreiter^?Der Kuebelreiter
  ] • (1933) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of
  Der Kübelreiter^?Der Kuebelreiter
  1921)
• 147 • The Sin of Jesus • (1955) • short story by
  Исаак Бабель^?Isaak Babel
  (trans. of
  Иисусов грех^?Iisusov grekh
  1924) [as by Isaac Babel]
• 153 • Lyompa • (1960) • short story by Yuri Olesha
• 159 • The Egyptian Stamp (excerpt) • short fiction by Osip Emilievich Mandelstam
• 165 • The Great Frost (excerpt) • short fiction by Virginia Woolf
• 171 • The Street of Crocodiles • (1963) • short story by Bruno Schulz
• 181 • The Visit to the Museum • (1958) • short story by Vladimir Nabokov (trans. of
  Посещение музея^?Poseshchenie muzeya
  1939)
• 191 • New Islands • (1982) • short story by
  María Luisa Bombal^?Maria Luisa Bombal
• 209 • In the Land of Magic (excerpt) • short fiction by Henri Michaux
• 217 • The Old People • (1940) • short story by William Faulkner
• 235 • Moon Lake • novelette by Eudora Welty
• 267 • The Piano • (1967) • short story by Aníbal Monteiro Machado (trans. of O piano 1944)
• 285 • The Aleph • (1970) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El Aleph 1945)
• 297 • The South • (1962) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El Sur 1953)
• 305 • My Life with the Wave • short story by Octavio Paz
• 313 • The Enormous Radio • (1947) • short story by John Cheever
• 325 • The Guest • (1966) • short story by Vjekoslav Kaleb
• 335 • Gogol's Wife • (1963) • short story by Tommaso Landolfi (trans. of La moglie di Gogol 1944)
• 347 • Major Aranda's Hand • (1973) • short story by Alfonso Reyes (trans. of La mano del comandante Aranda 1955)
• 355 • Axolotl • (1967) • short story by
  Julio Cortázar^?Julio Cortazar
  (trans. of Axolotl 1956)
• 361 • The Night Face Up • (1967) • short story by
  Julio Cortázar^?Julio Cortazar
  (trans. of La noche boca arriba 1956)
• 371 • Journey to the Seed • (1967) • short story by Alejo Carpentier (trans. of Viaje a la semilla 1944)
• 385 • The Smallest Woman in the World • short story by Clarice Lispector (trans. of A menor mulher do mundo 1959)
• 393 • Aura • (1965) • novelette by Carlos Fuentes (trans. of Aura 1962)
• 421 • In the Village • short story by Elizabeth Bishop
• 439 • The Distance of the Moon • (1968) • short story by Italo Calvino (trans. of La distanza della Luna 1964)
• 451 • Invisible Cities (excerpt) • short fiction by Italo Calvino
• 457 • A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings • (1972) • short story by
  Gabriel García Márquez^?Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  (trans. of Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes 1955)
• 463 • Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles • (1971) • short story by
  Gabriel García Márquez^?Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  (trans. of Blacamán el Bueno, vendedor de milagros)
• 473 • Cloud Maker • short story by Robert Escarpit
• 483 • Views of My Father Weeping • (1969) • short story by Donald Barthelme
• 495 • The Angels (excerpt) • short fiction by Milan Kundera