Table of Content
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
