Lost Words
This collection of international stories, edited with Craig Stephenson and illustrated by Jeff Fisher for Index on Censorship, examines the long history of censorship as a parallel history of literature, censors bearing witness to the power of words even more forcefully than the writers and readers they consider dangerous.
First Edition
London, Writers & Scholars Int., 1996
Softcover, 195 p.
Co-editor Craig Stephenson
Introduction by
Alberto Manguel & Craig Stephenson
Rosario Castellanos, Haroldo Conti and
Nedim Gürsel translated by Alberto Manguel
- EDITORIAL / URSULA OWEN: Word Power
- COVER STORY: Lost Words
- INTRODUCTION / ALBERTO MANGUEL & CRAIG STEPHENSON: Dangerous Subjects
- ITALY / ITALO CALVINO: The General in the Library
- CUBA / REINALDO ARENAS: Traitor
- INDONESIA / PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER: Encounter With the Devils
- BURMA / MA THIDA: The Secret of Successful Transfusion
- VIETNAM / DUONG THU HUONG: The Labyrinth
- ARGENTINA / HAROLDO CONTI: The Art of Hunting With Dogs
- UK / GRAHAM GREENE: The Last Word
- EGYPT / EDWARD AI-KHARRAT: The Accusation
- NIGERIA / KEN SARO-WIWA: The New Beggars
- CANADA / JANE RULE: Puzzle
- CHINA / BAI HUA: Su Qin Carrying His Sword
- MOROCCO / MOHAMED CHOUKRI: The Poets
- IRAN / M.T. SHARIF: The Letter Writer
- MEXICO / ROSARIO CASTELLANOS: Death of the Tiger
- TURKEY / NEDIM GÜRSEL: The Graveyard of Unwritten Books
- USA / URSULA K. LE GUIN: Diary of the Rose
- CONTRIBUTORS / ADAM NEWEY: Dead Men Tell No Tales
- INDEX
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