A Winter Book: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson by Tove Jansson

Collected Shorter Fiction (Volume 1)

(Book Jacket prestige: no longer Jacketed)Written over a interval of greater than part a century, those tales mirror each element of Tolstoy's artwork and character. They conceal his studies as a soldier within the Caucasus, his married existence, his passionate curiosity within the peasantry, his cult of fact adn simplicity, and, principally, his growing to be preoccupation with faith.

Cinq contes fantastiques

II est dans l'un et l'autre paysages à l. a. fois, là à l. a. même position, sans remuer. Il les despatched tous les deux, les despatched bien dans son corps tous les deux, tout autour de son corps, aussi loin qu'il puisse appréhender le monde. Pour une fois ! L'univers s'offre à lui dans une dualité insoupçonnée, séductrice, jusqu'à ce jour celée dans l. a. coïncidence.

Living with Snakes

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In Daniel Curley's tales, passionate rage and funky, transparent hatred regulate the phrases of even the main simple human relationships, etching strange styles at the floor of the normal world--a guy applies the equipment of Mata-Hari to the duty of keeping an eye on his ex-wife; the sufferer of a pickpocket plots mental revenge at the felony inhabitants of a Mexico urban bus line; a spurned lover summons all his power and braveness to free up a roomful of snakes held captive by way of his rival. For the main half, the figures within the panorama of those tales are women and men appearing the rituals that bring about and clear of marriage.

In the 1st Baseman, a guy within the strategy of getting a divorce falls in love with a participant on a woman's softball crew, yet their dialog by no means is going a long way past the topic of her batting usual. In "Trinity," an estranged couple introduced jointly back by way of the loss of life in their daughter reveals that they can't recreate both their love or their baby. And in Wild ducks, a man's dream approximately his adolescence, while flocks of ducks patterned the sky, is interrupted and at last shot-through by means of fevered pictures of a tedious dinner party.

Nature exists as a safe haven in those tales, however it is a safe haven commonly to be present in the shadow of the terror of demise; within the recesses of reminiscence; past the bars that isolate zoo animals from an unruly global. Demonically sincere and occasionally violently humorous, dwelling with Snakes tells of a global the place love is at most sensible a touch-and-go type of factor, the place occasionally women and men are sure jointly no longer loads through affection as by means of mutual loss, mutual pain.

Literary Awards
Flannery O'Connor Award for brief Fiction (1985)

American Innovations: Stories

An excellent new choice of brief tales from [b]“the conspicuously talented” (Time) Rivka Galchen.
In one of many intensely imaginitive tales in Rivka’s Galchen’s American thoughts, a tender woman’s furnishings walks out on her. In one other, the narrator feels pressured to vow to bring a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a 3rd, the petty details of a estate transaction illuminate the advanced pains and loves of a family.

The tales in this groundbreaking assortment are secretly in dialog with canonical tales, re-imagined from the point of view of woman characters. simply as Wallace Stevens’s “Anecdote of the Jar” responds to John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Galchen’s “The misplaced Order” covertly recapitulates James Thurber’s “The mystery lifetime of Walter Mitty,” whereas “The quarter of Unlikeness” is a smoky and playful reflect to Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Aleph. ” The identify tale, “American Innovations,” revisits Nikolai Gogol’s “The nostril. ”

By turns real looking, fantastical, witty, and lyrical, those marvelously uneasy stories are deeply emotional and written in exuberant, pitch-perfect prose. even if exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter dating or the finer issues of time shuttle, Galchen is a author like none different at the present time.