Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction

Philip Stevick, John Barth, Russell Edson, George P. Elliott, Keith Fort, William H. Gass, Michael Goldstein, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Enrique Anderson Imbert, Eugène Ionesco, Tomasso Landolfi, Reinhard Lettau, Donald Barthelme, Oscar Lewis, Norman Mailer, Eugenio Montale, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Quin, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Theodore Roethke, Nathalie Sarraute, Mitch Sisskind, Curtis Zahn, Heinrich Böll, Jorge Luis Borges, Michel Butor, Robert Coover, Julio Cortázar, Nigel Dennis, Thomas M. Disch


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4.00 · 3 ratings · 319 pages · Published: 01 Jan 1971

Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction by Philip Stevick, John Barth, Russell Edson, George P. Elliott, Keith Fort, William H. Gass, Michael Goldstein, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Enrique Anderson Imbert, Eugène Ionesco, Tomasso Landolfi, Reinhard Lettau, Donald Barthelme, Oscar Lewis, Norman Mailer, Eugenio Montale, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Quin, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Theodore Roethke, Nathalie Sarraute, Mitch Sisskind, Curtis Zahn, Heinrich Böll, Jorge Luis Borges, Michel Butor, Robert Coover, Julio Cortázar, Nigel Dennis, Thomas M. Disch
Contents:

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
Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote by Jorge Luis Borges
Gogol's wife by Tomasso Landolfi
The rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco
A world ends by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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
Blow-up by Julio Cortazar
A view from the sky by Curtis Zahn
The squirrel cage by Thomas Disch
The pukey by Nigel Dennis
The locust cry by Norman Mailer
In a hole by George P. Elliott
A pedestrian accident by Robert Coover
Tropism XV by Nathalie Sarraute
In the corridors of the underground : the escalator by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Welcome to Utah by Michel Butor
The man in pyjamas by Eugenio Montale
The self-contained compartment by Michael Goldstein
Game by Donald Barthelme
A mean teacher by Mitchell Sisskind
Games VI by Reinhard Lettau
Father, father, what have you done? by Russell Edson
Taboo by Enrique Anderson Imbert

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