Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth

✍ Scribed by Espriu, Salvador;Phillips, Rowan Ricardo

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

One of the foundational texts of Catalan fiction, Salvador Espriu's Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth is a collection of short stories in which action, character, and place are as winding and sumptuous as mythical maze of its title.;Cover; Title Page; Contents; A Note on the Text and the Translation; The Young Man and the Old Man; Little-Teresa-Who-Went-Down-the-Stairs; Psyche; Nebuchadnezzar; Death in the Street; German Quasi-Story of Ulrika Thöus; Nerves; The Rise and Fall of Esperança Trinquis; First and Only Run-In with Zaraat; Magnolias in the Cloister; Myrrha; On Orthodoxy; The Heart of the Town; Hildebrand; Thanatos; The Figurines of the Nativity Scene; The Beheaded; Vulgar History; Mama Real Lylo Vesme; Prologue to the Devil's Ballet; My Friend Salom; Crisant's Theory; Introduction to the Study of a Small Giraffe.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Contents
A Note on the Text and the Translation
The Young Man and the Old Man
Little-Teresa-Who-Went-Down-the-Stairs
Psyche
Nebuchadnezzar
Death in the Street
German Quasi-Story of Ulrika Thöus
Nerves
The Rise and Fall of Esperança Trinquis
First and Only Run-In with Zaraat
Magnolias in the Cloister
Myrrha
On Orthodoxy
The Heart of the Town
Hildebrand
Thanatos
The Figurines of the Nativity Scene
The Beheaded
Vulgar History
Mama Real Lylo Vesme
Prologue to the Devil's Ballet
My Friend Salom
Crisant's Theory
Introduction to the Study of a Small Giraffe. TopicThe Subordinates
Ghettos
The Literary Circle
The Conversion and Death of Quim Federal
English Quasi-Story of Athalia Spinster
Panets Walks His Head
French Quasi-Story of Samson, Rediscovered
Sembobitis
The Moribund Country
Copyright.

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