Ebook: Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth

One of the foundational texts of Catalan fiction, Salvador Espriu's Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth is a collection of short stories in which action, character, and place are as winding and sumptuous as mythical maze of its title.;Cover; Title Page; Contents; A Note on the Text and the Translation; The Young Man and the Old Man; Little-Teresa-Who-Went-Down-the-Stairs; Psyche; Nebuchadnezzar; Death in the Street; German Quasi-Story of Ulrika Thöus; Nerves; The Rise and Fall of Esperança Trinquis; First and Only Run-In with Zaraat; Magnolias in the Cloister; Myrrha; On Orthodoxy; The Heart of the Town; Hildebrand; Thanatos; The Figurines of the Nativity Scene; The Beheaded; Vulgar History; Mama Real Lylo Vesme; Prologue to the Devil's Ballet; My Friend Salom; Crisant's Theory; Introduction to the Study of a Small Giraffe.