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Anthology Titre: Histoires étranges et fantastiques d'Amérique latine • anthology by Claude Couffon

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• 7 • Introduction (Histoires étranges et fantastiques d'Amérique latine) • essay by Claude Couffon
• 17 • L'oreiller de plumes • (1985) • short story by Horacio Quiroga (trans. of El almohadón de plumas 1907)
• 22 • Anaconda • (1988) • novelette by Horacio Quiroga (trans. of Anaconda 1921)
• 61 • Les Caynas • short story by César Vallejo (trans. of Los Caynas 1923)
• 73 • Jean le Tamanoir • (1967) • short story by Miguel Ángel Asturias (trans. of Juan Hormiguero)
• 81 • L'Aleph • (1967) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El Aleph 1945)
• 97 • Le Sud • (1964) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El Sur 1953)
• 106 • Les objets • (1974) • short story by Silvina Ocampo (trans. of Los objetos 1959)
• 110 • La maison en sucre • (1974) • short story by Silvina Ocampo (trans. of La casa de azúcar 1959)
• 122 • Retour aux sources • short story by Alejo Carpentier (trans. of Viaje a la semilla 1944)
• 140 • La tache indélébile • short story by Juan Bosch (trans. of La mancha indeleble 1962)
• 147 • Salut, Bob ! • (1961) • short story by Juan Carlos Onetti (trans. of Bienvenido Bob 1951)
• 159 • Personne n'allumait les lampes • (1975) • short story by Felisberto Hernández (trans. of Nadie encendía las lámparas 1947)
• 168 • Les vautours • (1987) • short story by Óscar Cerruto (trans. of Los buitres 1958)
• 177 • De la forme du monde • (1978) • novelette by Adolfo Bioy Casares (trans. of De la forma del mundo 1976)
• 209 • La clairière • short story by Luisa Mercedes Levinson (trans. of El abra 1959)
• 221 • N'accusez personne • (1968) • short story by Julio Cortázar (trans. of No se culpe a nadie 1956)
• 226 • Apocalypse de solentiname • (1977) • short story by Julio Cortázar (trans. of Apocalipsis de solentiname)
• 236 • La nuit des feux flottants • (1984) • short story by Augusto Roa Bastos (trans. of Carpincheros 1953)
• 254 • Tu n'entends pas les chiens aboyer • (1966) • short story by Juan Rulfo (trans. of No oyes ladrar los perros 1953)
• 260 • L'aiguilleur • (1961) • short story by Juan José Arreola (trans. of El guardagujas 1952)
• 271 • Le rescuscité • (1987) • short story by Gloria Alcorta
• 284 • Le jour où nous fûmes des chiens • (1963) • short story by Elena Garro (trans. of El día que fuimos perros 1962)
• 294 • Au-delà du miroir • short story by Virgilio Díaz Grullón (trans. of Más allá del espejo 1975)
• 302 • L'homme aux champignons • (1977) • novelette by Sergio Galindo (trans. of El hombre de los hongos 1976)
• 336 • Aura • (1968) • novelette by Carlos Fuentes (trans. of Aura 1962)
• 375 • Le noyé le plus beau du monde • (1977) • short story by Gabriel García Márquez (trans. of El ahogado más hermoso del mundo 1968)
• 384 • Silvio et la Roseraie • (1981) • novelette by Julio Ramón Ribeyro (trans. of Silvio en El Rosedal 1977)
• 414 • Les initiales • (1982) • short story by Hector Bianciotti (trans. of Las iniciales)
• 433 • Le grand-père • (1961) • short story by Mario Vargas Llosa (trans. of El abuelo 1958)
• 445 • Le miroir: Ébauche d'une nouvelle théorie de l'âme humaine • (1987) • short story by Machado de Assis (trans. of O espelho: esboço de uma nova teoria da alma humana 1882) [as by Joaquim Machado de Assis]
• 458 • Le gérant • (1985) • novelette by Carlos Drummond de Andrade (trans. of O Gerente 1951)
• 487 • Le troisième rivage du fleuve • (1982) • short story by João Guimarães Rosa (trans. of A terceira margem do rio 1962)
• 497 • Du miracle des oiseaux survenu récemment sur les terres d'Alagoas, sur les rives du Rio São Francisco • short story by Jorge Amado (trans. of Do recente milagre dos pássaros 1979)

• First printing.
• Stories translated by diverse hands.
• Each story or group of stories by the same author is preceded by a bio-bibliographical presentation by Claude Couffon.
• This anthology is divided into two unequal parts : first come the Spanish-speaking authors of Latin America, then the Brazilian, Portuguese-speaking ones (as de p. 441, last four stories).
• Data de OCLC/WorldCat.
• Bibliothèque nationale de France and nooSFere give the same price.