Anti-Story: an anthology of experimental fiction (1971) [Anthology]
by John Barth Donald Barthelme Heinrich Böll Jorge Luis Borges Michel Butor Robert Coover Julio Cortázar Nigel Dennis Thomas M. Disch Russell Edson Keith Fort William H. Gass Michael Goldstein Wolfgang Hildesheimer Enrique Anderson Imbert Eugčne Ionesco Tommaso Landolfi Reinhard Lettau Oscar Lewis Norman Mailer Eugenio Montale Joyce Carol Oates Ann Quin Alain Robbe-Grillet Theodore Roethke Nathalie Sarraute Mitchell Sisskind Curtis Zahn
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Edited by Philip Stevick
Contents:
Against Mimesis: Fiction About Fiction
• "Life-Story" by John Barth
• "The Seventh Trunk" by Heinrich Böll
• "How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again" by Joyce Carol Oates
• "The Coal Shoveller" by Keith Fort
Against "Reality": The Uses of Fantasy
• "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote" by Jorge Luis Borges
• "Gogol’s Wife" by Tommaso Landolfi
• "Rhinoceros" by Eugčne Ionesco
• "A World Ends" by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Against Event: The Primacy of Voice
• "Last Class" by Theodore Roethke
• "You Can’t Cover Up the Sky With Your Hand" by Oscar Lewis
• "Motherlogue" by Ann Quin
• "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" by William Gass
Against Subject: Fiction in Search of Something to Be About
• "Blow-Up" by Julio Cortázar
• "A View from the Sky" by Curtis Zahn
• "The Squirrel Cage" by Thomas M. Disch
Against the Middle Range of Experience: New Forms of Extremity
• "The Pukey" by Nigel Dennis
• "The Locust Cry" by Norman Mailer
• "In a Hole" by George P. Elliott
• "A Pedestrian Accident" by Robert Coover
Against Analysis: The Phenomenal World
• "Tropism XV" by Nathalie Sarraute
• "In the Corridors of the Underground: The Escalator" by Alain Robbe-Grillet
• "Welcome to Utah" by Michel Butor
Against Meaning: Forms of the Absurd
• "The Man in Pyjamas" by Eugenio Montale
• "The Self-Contained Compartment" by Michael Goldstein
• "Game" by Donald Barthelme
• "A Mean Teacher" by Mitchell Sisskind
Against Scale: The Minimal Story
• "Games" by Reinhard Lettau
• "Father, Father, What Have You Done?" by Russell Edson
• "Taboo" by Enrique Anderson Imbert
Original title: Anti-Story: an anthology of experimental fiction
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics→ Post-modern, Avant-garde, & Experimental
The following works are contained within this one: Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote (1939) [Short Story] Author: Jorge Luis Borges
World Ends, a (1952) [Short Story] Author: Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Blow-Up (1959) [Short Story] Author: Julio Cortázar
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