The Book of Fantasy
By: edited by Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo, A. Bioy Casares ; introduced by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Contributors: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-; Ocampo, Silvina.; Bioy Casares, Adolfo.
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780670823932
Copyright date: 1988
Subjects: Fantasy literature.
Description: The Book of Fantasy began one night when three friends fell to talking about fantasies and ghost stories. The place was Buenos Aires, 1937, and the people were Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares and his wife Silvina debated which stories were best, wrote Bioy Casares later, 'and someone suggested that if we brought together the tales and the fragments that we had listed in our notebooks we would have a good book. ' 

The result is an astonishing collection of stories drawn from all the literatures of the world from Ancient China to Modern America mingling the obscure and the neglected with the already famous and showing a splendid disdain for conventional literary opinion. Among the authors included are Leonid Andreyev, Léon Bloy, Lewis Carroll, Jean Cocteau, O.K. Chesterton, James Joyce, Giovanni Papini, Carlos Peralta and Villiers de L'lsle Adam, some of whom have never been translated before. 'It is some- times said, wrote Bruce Chatwin. 'that all the elements of civilization end up eventually in Argentina, and most of it ends up in Borges' head. His values are those of high Western civilization They say lives in a world of imagination and dreams, but he's central to life. ' 

Now considerably expanded and published for the first time in English, The Book of Fantasy has a specially-written introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin. twice winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards. She writes: 'It is an idiosyncratic selection. and completely eclectic. of the stories will be familiar to anyone who reads, others are exotic discoveries. A very well-known piece ... seems less predictable set among works and fragments from the Orient and South America and distant centuries, by Kafka Swedeolorg Cortäzar, Akutagawa. Niu Chiao; its own essential strangeness is restored to This is, quite simply, the finest anthology of its kind.
--front flap
Notes: Includes bio-bibliographies.
Translation of: Antología de la literatura fantástica.
Table of contents: title: Sennin RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA; title: A Woman Alone with Her Soul; title: THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH; title: Ben-Tobith LEONID ANDREYEV; title: The Phantom Basket JOHN AUBREY; title: The Drowned Giant J. G. BALLARD; title: Enoch Soames MAXBEERBOHM; title: The Tail ofthe Sphinx AMBROSE BIERCE; title: The Squid in Its own Ink ADOLFO BIOY CASARES; title: Guilty Eyes AH'MED CHIRUANI; title: Anything You Want! .; title: LÉON BLOY; title: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius JORGE LUIS BORGES; title: Odin JORGE LUIS BORGES and DELIA INGENIEROS; title: The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind RAYBRADBURY; title: The Man Who Collected the First of September, 1973; title: TOR AGE BRINGSVAERD; title: The Careless Rabbi MARTIN BUBER; title: The Tale and the Poet Sir Richard Burton; title: Fate is a Fool ARTURO CANCELA and; title: PILAR DE LUSARRETA; title: An Actual Authentic Ghost THOMAS CARLYLE; title: The Red King's Dream LEWIS CARROLL; title: The Tree of Pride G. K. CHESTERTON; title: The Tower ofBabel G. K. CHESTERTON; title: The Dream of the Butterfly CHUANG TZU; title: The Look ofl)eath JEAN COCTEAU; title: House Taken Over JULIO CORTÅZAR; title: Being Dust SANTIAGO DABOVE; title: A Parable ofG1uttony ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL; title: The Persecution of the Master; title: ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL; title: The Idle City LORD DUNSANY; title: Tantalia MACEDONIO FERNANDEZ; title: Eternal Life J. G. FRAZER; title: A Secure Home ELENA GARRO; title: The Man Who Did Not Believe in Miracles; title: HERBERT A. GILES; title: Earth's Holocaust NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE; title: Ending for a Ghost Story I. A. IRELAND; title: The Monkey's Paw W. W. JACOBS; title: What is a Ghost? JAMES JOYCE; title: May Goulding JAMES JOYCE; title: The Wizard Passed Over DON JUAN MANUEL; title: Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk FRANZ KAFKA; title: Before the Law FRANZ KAFKA; title: The Return of Imray RUDYARD KIPLING; title: The Horses ofAbdera LEOPOLDO LUGONES; title: The Ceremony ARTHUR MACHEN; title: The Riddle WALTER DE LA MARE; title: Who Knows? GUY DE MAUPASSANT; title: The Shadow of the Players EDWIN MORGAN; title: TheCat H. A. ML'RENA; title: The Story of the Foxes NIU CHIAO; title: The Atonement SILVINA; title: The Man Who Belonged to Me GIOVANNI PAPINI; title: Rani CARLOS PERALTA; title: The Blind Spot BARRY PEROWNE; title: The Wolf PETRONIUS; title: The Bust MANUEL PEYROU; title: The cask of Amontillado EDGAR ALLAN POE; title: The Tiger of Chao-Ch'Eng P'U SUNG LING; title: Hozv We Amved at the Island of Tools; title: FRANCOIS RABELAIS; title: The Music on the Hill 'SAKI' (H. H. MUNRO); title: Where Their Fire is Not Quenched MAY SINCLAIR; title: TheC10th Which Weaves Itself W. W. SKEAT; title: Universal History OLAF STAPLEDON; title: A Theologian in Death EMANUEL SWEDENBORG; title: The Encounter FROM THE T'ANG DYNASTY; title: The Three Hermits LEO TOLSTOY; title: Macario B. TRAVEN; title: The Infinite Dream of Pao-Yu TSAO HSUEyæHIN; title: The Mirror to Wind-and-Moon TSAO HSEUH-CHIN; title: The Desire ToBeaMan VILLIERS DEL'ISLE ADAM; title: Memmon, or Human Wisdom VOLTAIRE; title: The Man Who Liked Dickens EVELYN WAUGH; title: Pomegranate Seed EDITH WHARTON; title: Lukundoo EDWARD LUCAS WHITE; title: The Donguys JUAN RUDOLFO WILCOCK; title: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime OSCAR WILDE; title: The Sorcerer of the White Lotus Lodge; title: RICHARD WILHELM; title: The Celestial Stag G. WILLOUGHBY-MEADE; title: Saved by the Book G. WILLOUGHBY-MEADE; title: The Reanimated Englishman; title: MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY; title: The Sentence WU CH'ENG EN; title: The Sorcerers WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS; title: Fragment JOSÉ ZORILLA; title: SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS