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 Eugène 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