The Slaying of the Dragon: Modern Tales of the Playful Imagination

by Franz Rottensteiner (Other)

Table of Contents
The slaying of the dragon / Dino Buzzati
Axolotl / Julio Cortázar
The lottery in Babylon / Jorge Luis Borges
With the gypsy girls / Mircea Eliade
Aura / Carlos Fuentes
Adam, one afternoon / Italo Calvino
Story in a mirror / Ilse Aichinger
The drowned giant / J.G. Ballard
The emerald / Donald Barthelme
Further confessions / Joyce Carol Oates
The mask / Stanislaw Lem
Biographical notes on the authors

303 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Franz Rottensteiner, never a comfortable critic, has enlivened sf discussion for many years. He is a long-tim editor of the respected Austrian fanzine, Quarber Merkur.