Insomnia (1946) [Short Story]
by Virgilio Piñera
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On the relationship between death and insomnia. (A brief vignette)
Originally published in Anales de Buenos Aires in October 1946.
Published in English in the anthology Black Water
Original title: En el insomnio
Original languages:
Spanish
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Genre: Fiction→ Fantasy→ Literary Fantasy
This work is a subwork of the following works : Black Water (1983) [Anthology] Authors: M. R. James
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Ursula K. Le Guin
, Rudyard Kipling
, Charles Dickens
, Ray Bradbury
, E. M. Forster
, Graham Greene
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Henry James
, Franz Kafka
, D. H. Lawrence
, Alexander Pushkin
, Jules Verne
, H. G. Wells
, Edith Wharton
, Oscar Wilde
, Tennessee Williams
, Lord Dunsany
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, Vladimir Nabokov
, W. Somerset Maugham
, Daphne du Maurier
, Julio Cortázar
, Italo Calvino
, Jorge Luis Borges
, O. Henry
, John Collier
, Isak Dinesen
, Hermann Hesse
, Saki
, Charles Williams
, W. W. Jacobs
, Ryunosuke Akutagawa
, Joanne Greenberg
, Walter de la Mare
, Howard Fast
, Max Beerbohm
, Hans Christian Andersen
, Manuel Mujica Láinez
, I. A. Ireland
, Stephen Vincent Benét
, Hilaire Belloc
, L.P. Hartley
, Alex Comfort
, Francis King
, Marguerite Yourcenar
, Junichiro Tanizaki
, Robert Hichens
, Jean Cocteau
, Flann O'Brien
, David Garnett
, Bruno Schulz
, Lafcadio Hearn
, Juan Manuel
, João Guimarães Rosa
, Silvina Ocampo
, Léon Bloy
, Giovanni Papini
, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
, Virgilio Piñera
, Brian Moore
, André Pieyre de Mandiargues
, Cynthia Ozick
, Marco Denevi
, J. B. Priestley
, Horacio Quiroga
, Marcel Aymé
, George Hitchcock
, Adolfo Bioy Casares
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