The Slaying of the Dragon

The Slaying of the Dragon: Modern tales of the playful imagination

anthology

edited by Franz Rottensteiner

Published: Harcourt Brace - hardback - 1984
ISBN: 0151829756 / 9780151829750


Contents
Farewell to Dragons: A Literature of Doubt - essay by Franz Rottensteiner
The Slaying of the Dragon - short story by Dino Buzzati ( aka L'uccisione del drago 1942 )
Axolotl - short story by Julio Cortazar ( aka Axalotl 1967 )
The Lottery in Babylon - short story by Jorge Luis Borges (aka La lotería en Babilonia 1941 )
With the Gypsy Girls - novella by Mircea Eliade ( aka La Țigănci 1969 )
Aura - novelette by Carlos Fuentes ( aka Aura 1962 ) ( trans. by Lysander Kemp )
Adam, One Afternoon - short story by Italo Calvino ( aka Un pomeriggio, Adamo 1949 )
Story in a Mirror - short story by Ise Aichinger ( aka Spiegelgeschichte 1953 ) ( trans. by Eric Mosbacher )
The Drowned Giant - short story by J. G. Ballard ( 1964 )
The Emerald - novelette by Donald Barthelme ( 1979 )
Further Confessions - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates ( 1977 )
The Mask - novelette by Stanislaw Lem ( aka Maska 1976 )