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Selected stories
- Title
- Selected stories / Adolfo Bioy Casares ; translated, with an introduction, by Suzanne Jill Levine.
- Author
- Bioy Casares, Adolfo
- Publication
- New York : New Directions, 1994.
- ©1994
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 96-12697 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Restricted use | Berg Coll 22-586 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xv, 176 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Fifteen stories by an Argentinian writer mixing the fantastic with the real. The subjects range from love to madness.
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Translations.
- Short stories.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 20th century.
- Note
- "A New Directions book" -- title page.
- "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
- Indexed In (note)
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
- Binding (note)
- bound in publishers' maroon cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Hermann Strohbach.
- Contents
- Introduction / Suzanne Jill Levine The Labyrinth of Love : Souvenir from the mountains -- A Roman fable -- A secret Casanova -- An affair -- Women are all the same -- Men are all the same -- Pearls before swine -- Trio -- Adverse Miracles : The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice -- Flies and spiders -- Resurrection -- About the shape of the world -- The hero of women -- The Noumenon -- An unexpected journey.
- Call Number
- JFD 96-12697
- ISBN
- 0811212750
- 9780811212755
- LCCN
- 94006744
- OCLC
- 29909396
- Author
- Bioy Casares, Adolfo, author.
- Title
- Selected stories / Adolfo Bioy Casares ; translated, with an introduction, by Suzanne Jill Levine.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions, 1994.
- Copyright Date
- ©1994
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Creator/Contributor Characteristics
- Author: Argentines Porteños (Argentina) Men
- Indexed In:
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 139
- Binding
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-586 bound in publishers' maroon cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Hermann Strohbach. NN
- Local Note
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-586 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
- Added Author
- Levine, Suzanne Jill, translator.Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.Strohbach, Hermann (Designer), bookjacket designer.New Directions Publishing, publisher.Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.Javitch, Daniel, donor.Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll 22-586JFD 96-12697