The Art of the Tale

An International Anthology of Short Stories, 1945-1985
Herausgeber: Halpern, Daniel

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Produktbeschreibung

Eighty-one masterpieces by the world's best writers-a surprising, irresistible collection of short stories from around the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House Sea
• Seitenzahl: 832
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 1987
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 788g
• ISBN-13: 9780140079494
• ISBN-10: 0140079491
• Artikelnr.: 22019699

Autorenporträt

Daniel Halpern is the author of eight collections of poetry, and has received numerous grants and awards (including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the 1993 PEN Publisher Citation). For twenty-five years he edited the literary magazine Antaeus. He is currently Editorial Director of The Ecco Press/HarperCollins and divides his time between Princeton, New Jersey and New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

The Art of the TaleIntroduction
Chinua, Achebe,Nigeria
The Sacrificial Egg
Ilse Aichinger, Austria
The Bound Man
Vasily Aksenov, Russia
Little Whale,Varnisher of Reality
Margaret Atwood, Canada
Hair Jewellery
Ingeborg Bachmann, Austria
Everything
James Baldwin, United States
Going to Meet the Man
Russell Banks, United States
The Child Screams and Looks Back at You
Donald Barthelme, United States
Cortés and Montezuma
Ann Beattie, United States
Jacklighting
Samuel Beckett, Ireland
First Love
Heinrich Böll, Germany
Action Will Be Taken
Wolfgang Borchert, Germany
Do Stay, Giraffe
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina
The Aleph
Tadeusz Borowski, Poland
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Abdeslam Boulaich, Morocco
Cowardice
Paul Bowles, United States
A Distant Episode
T. Coraghessan Boyle, United States
Greasy Lake
Harold Brodkey, United States
Ceil
Dino Buzzati, Italy
Seven Floors
Italo Calvino, Italy
The Adventure of a Traveler
Albert Camus, France
The Adulterous Woman
Truman Capote, United States
Children on Their Birthdays
Raymond Carver, United States
Fat
John Cheever, United States
The Country Husband
Robert Coover, United States
Quenby and Ola, Swede and Carl
Julio Cortázar, Argentina
Bestiary
Guy Davenport, United States
The Haile Selassie Funeral Train
Isak Dinesen, Denmark
The Cloak
E. L. Doctorow, United States
The Hunter
Stanley Elkin United States
I Look Out for Ed Wolfe
Richard Ford, United States
Communist
Carlos Fuentes, Mexico
The Doll Queen
Mavis Gallant, Canada
The Chosen Husband
William Gass, United States
Order of Insects
Natalia Ginzburg, Italy
The Mother
Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
The Life of the Imagination
Graham Greene, England
Two Gentle People
Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Germany
Why I Transformed Myself into a Nightingale
Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
One Arm
Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakia
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
Tommaso Landolfi, Italy
Gogol's Wife
Doris Lessing, England
The Habit of Loving
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
The Challenge
Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish
Bernard Malamud, United States
The Last Mohican
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia
Eyes of a Blue Dog
William Maxwell, United States
The Pilgrimage
Ian McEwan, England
First Love, Last Rites
Leonard Michaels, United States
The Deal
Yukio Mishima, Japan
Patriotism
Alberto Moravia, Italy
Jewellery
Mohammed Mrabet, Morocco
Doctor Safi
Vladimir Nabokov, Russia
Spring in Fialta
R. K. Narayan, India
Naga
Joyce Carol Oates, United States
The Tryst
Edna O'Brien, Ireland
Sister Imelda
Flannery O'Connor, United States
The Artificial Nigger
Frank O'Connor, Ireland
A Set of Variations on a Borrowed Theme
Amos Oz, Israel
Nomad and Viper
Cynthia Ozick, United States
The Suitcase
Grace Paley, United States
The Contest
Cesare Pavese, Italy
Suicides
V. S. Pritchett, England
The Saint
James Purdy, United States
Eventide
Alain Robbe-Grillet, France
The Replacement
Mercè Rodoreda, Spain
Rain
Leon Rooke, Canada
In the Garden
Juan Rulfo, Mexico
Talpa
Nathalie Sarraute, France
XXII
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Poland
Henne Fire
Susan Sontag, United States
Unguided Tour
Jean Stafford, United States
Children Are Bored on Sunday
Peter Taylor, United States
A Friend and Protector
Michael Tournier, France
Death and the Maiden
William Trevor, Ireland
Beyond the Pale
John Updike, United States
Separating
Luisa Valenzuela, Argentina
I'm Your Horse in the Night
Eudora Welty, United States
No Place For You, My Love
Patrick White, Australia
Five-Twenty
Tobias Wolff, United States
Hunters in the Snow
Richard Wright, United States
Big Black Good Man
Richard Yates, United States
The Best of Everything
Biographical Notes