Overview
- Summary
- Thirty-four stories by an Austrian poet who writes on familiar subjects from a new angle. In St. George and His Dragon, the dragon and St. George are friends, and the dragon's death is a mercy killing.
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. English. Selections
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London : New York : Serpent's Tail, 1992
- Contents
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Atonement
St. George and his dragon
Father of all things
Deliverance
Miss Gröschel
The running jump
Hounded to death
The only difficult thing
Tortoise turning
My doll in Auschwitz
What the facts were
The big show
The patriotic fitting
The artificers
The green suite
"Surrenderdness"
The true borges
Small animal hunt on the Nile
Repellent
Balance
Neither fish nor flesh
The real
Kobenhavns Amts Sygehus Gentofte
The stork
Wunderkind time
The great day of Linz
My heroic age
My resistance group
The unworthy families
The commission
Three library users
Läzchen
Fini
Comfort. - Notes
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Atonement -- St. George and his dragon -- Father of all things -- Deliverance -- Miss Gröschel -- The running jump -- Hounded to death -- The only difficult thing -- Tortoise turning -- My doll in Auschwitz -- What the facts were -- The big show -- The patriotic fitting -- The artificers -- The green suite -- "Surrenderdness" -- The true borges -- Small animal hunt on the Nile -- Repellent -- Balance -- Neither fish nor flesh -- The real -- Kobenhavns Amts Sygehus Gentofte -- The stork -- Wunderkind time -- The great day of Linz -- My heroic age -- My resistance group -- The unworthy families -- The commission -- Three library users -- Läzchen -- Fini -- Comfort.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 1852422114
- Physical Description
- 168 pages ; 20 cm
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