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Jerome Charyn
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Edward Mooney
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Roger Kasunic
EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES
Linsey Abrams
Jennifer Gerard
Marianne DeKoven
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Margaret Wolf
Norman Filzman
EUROPEAN EDITOR
Marianne Frisch
GUESTS EDITORS
Suzanne Jill Levine
Emir Rodriquez Monegal
CONSULTING EDITORS
Louis Asekoff
Carole Cook
LAYOUT
Inger Johanne Grytting
COVER
House of the Arias Twins
by Fernando Botero.
Private collection, New York
Photograph courtesy Marlborough
Gallery, New York
Volume 5, Number 1 (1976)
Prologue
Contents
H. BUSTOS DOMECQ
FELISBERTO HERNÁNDEZ
CARLOS MARTÍNEZ MORENO
MARIO BENEDETTI
JUAN CARLOS ONETTI
MONA BERGENFELD
JOYCE CAROL OATES
FREDERIC TUTEN
INGRID BENGIS
STEPHEN DIXON
DOVID BERGELSON
ALFRED ANDERSCH
Monsterfest
The Crocodile
The Wreath on the Door
The Iriartes
Junta, the Bodysnatcher
Fruit for the Funeral
Sunday Blues
The Tumpkins Square Park Tales
The Woman and the Child
The Intruder
Joseph Shorr
The Windward Islands
Special Thanks
• Jorges Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares wrote “Monsterfest” under the pseudonym H. Bustos Domecq.
• Suzanne Jill Levine and Emir Rodriquez Monegal translated “Monsterfest” from the Spanish.
• Stephanie Merrim translated “The Crocodile” from the Spanish.
• John Bruce-Novoa and Claudia Cairo translated “The Wreath on the Door” from the Spanish.
• Lynn Tricario with Suzanne Jill Levine translated “The Iriartes” and “Junta, the Bodysnatcher” from the Spanish.
• Joachim Neugroschel translated “Joseph Shorr” from the Yiddish.
• Ralph Manheim translated “The Windward Islands” from the German.