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The Gates of Paradise

The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction

An international collection of the most imaginative and provocative short stories ever written on the power of sexual desire and the astonishing variety of erotic experience, by such celebrated writers as James Baldwin, D.H. Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Yukio Mishima and Stan Persky.

First Edition

Toronto, Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1993
Softcover, xxx; 689 p.

Introduction by Alberto Manguel
Anne Billat, Liliana Heker and André P. de Mandiargues translated by Alberto Manguel

9780921912477

  • Introduction  
  • ISABEL ALLENDE Wicked Girl
  • JAMES BALDWIN Just Above My Head
  • HONORE DE BALZAC A Passion in the Desert
  • GEORGES BATAILLE The Dead Man
  • ANNE BILLAT How Ishmael and Isaac Came to Be Born
  • HAROLD BRODKEY Innocence
  • ROBERT COOVER You Must Remember This
  • STEPHEN DIXON Milk Is Very Good for You
  • DORIS DORRIE What Do You Do While I’m Gone?
  • LILIANA HEKER Jocasta
  • GARY INDIANA Dreams Involving Water
  • LAZLO KAMONDY The Student and the Woman
  • MARGARITA KARAPANOU Kassandra and the Wolf
  • YASUNARI KAWABATA: One Arm
  • MILAN KUNDERA: The Hitchhiking Game
  • D.H. LAWRENCE: Once-!
  • WENDY LAW-YONE: Drought
  • DORIS LESSING: Each Other
  • LI ANG:Curvaceous Dolls
  • YURI MAMLEYEV: The Last Trace of Spinoza
  • ANDRE PIEYRE DE MANDIARGUES: The Tide
  • VALERIE MARTIN: Sea Lovers
  • RICHARD MATHESON: Arousal
  • ERIC McCORMACK: Birthday Present
  • IAN McEWAN: Homemade
  • SUSAN MINOT: Lust
  • YUKIO MISHIMA: Raisin Bread
  • ALBERTO MORAVIA: Love in the Chinese Restaurant
  • ADOLF MUSCHG: Grandfather’s Little Pleasure
  • ANAIS NIN: Mandra
  • STAN PERSKY: Eros and Cupid
  • ELENA PONIATOWSKA: Park Cinema
  • GLORIA SAWAI: The Day I Sat With Jesus on the Sun Deck and a Wind Came Up and Blew My Kimono Open and He Saw My Breasts
  • SARAH SHEARD: Eugenia
  • HELEN SIMPSON: Four Bare Legs in a Bed
  • ARMONIA SOMERS: The Fall
  • MARIO VARGAS LLOSA: Candaules, King of Lydia
  • VICKI VIIDIKAS: Darlinghurst Portrait
  • EIMI YAMADA: The X-Rated Blanket
  • Notes on the Contributors

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