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Soho Square III

This miscellany offers a selection of work by writers as diverse as Marguerite Duras, John Hawkes, and Cynthia Ozick, and includes Manguel’s translations of a speech Jorge Luis Borges gave at a dinner in his honor after resigning from a demeaning government job, and a rejected chapter from Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch.

First Edition

London, Bloomsbury, 1990
Hardcover, 287 p., illustr.

G. Grass, J.L. Borges, J. Cortázar, M. Duras, J. Roth, Y. Bonnefoy, G.C. Infante, T.E. Martínez, L. Heker, F. Dürrenmatt, A. Piznarik, A. Dávila and U. Eco translated by Alberto Manguel

9780747507161

  • Introduction  
  • CYNTHIA OZICK: Helping
  • T. S. ELIOT: Write Better
  • GÜNTER GRASS: The Lefthanders
  • JORGE LUIS BORGES: 8 August, 1946
  • JORGE LUIS BORGES: The Rose of Paracelsus
  • RICHARD OUTRAM: Two Poems
  • JULIO CORTÁZAR: A Rejected Chapter from Hopscotch
  • JULIAN BARNES: Dirty Story: the Making of Madame Bovary
  • MARGARET ATWOOD: The Female Body
  • MARGUERITE DURAS: The Slut of the Normandy Coast
  • ANNE SZUMIGALSKI: Two Poems
  • ROSE TREMAIN: Over
  • TIMOTHY FINDLEY: Parcel Post
  • MICHAEL GOREN: H. G. Wells and the Mask of Biography
  • JOSEPH ROTH: Goethe’s Oak in Buchenwald
  • YVES BONNEFOY: All Night Long
  • GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE: The Unknown Political Prisoner
  • TOMAS ELOY MARTINEZ: The End
  • MARQ DE VILLIERS: A White Tribe’s Dream
  • ANITA DESAI: A Reading Rat on the Moors
  • LILIANA HEKER: Early Beginnings or Ars Poetica
  • FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT: Document
  • FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT: The Sausage
  • MARY MORRISSY: Rosa
  • BONNIE BURNARD: Deer Heart
  • ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK: Four Poems
  • URSULA K. LE GUIN: Texts
  • IZAAK MANSK: Genesis According to Leon Hartman
  • ROHINTON MISTRY: The Scream
  • JANE URQUHART: The Inner Landscape of Saint Kathleen
  • HARUKI MURAKAMI: A Perfect Day for Kangaroos
  • JOHN HAWKES: Sire
  • DAVID BROOKS: The Wood
  • ROBERT BRINGHURST: All the Desanctified Places
  • JOSEPH SKVORECKY: From The Miracle Game
  • ISABEL HUGGAN: End of the Empire
  • DON COLES: Three Poems
  • MARY FLANAGAN: Not Quite Arcadia
  • GRACE PALEY: Three Days and a Question
  • RONALD WRIGHT: Crossroads
  • AMPARO DÁVILA: Welcome to the Chelsea
  • SUSAN SWAN: Meeting Your Reader
  • UMRERTO ECO: Tales From the Fast
  • ROBERT PULFORD: Gotcha! The Literary Imagination in Our Time

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