Complete Stories

Contents Glamour and Grammar FIRST STORIES The Triumph Obsession The Fever Dream Jimmy and I Interrupted Story The Escape Excerpt Letters to Hermengardo Gertrudes Asks for Advice Another Couple of Drunks FAMILY TIES Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady Love A Chicken The Imitation of the Rose Happy Birthday The Smallest Woman in the World The Dinner Preciousness Family Ties Beginnings of a Fortune Mystery in São Cristóvão The Crime of the Mathematics Teacher The Buffalo THE FOREIGN LEGION The Disasters of Sofia The Sharing of Loaves The Message Monkeys The Egg and the Chicken Temptation Journey to Petrópolis The Solution Evolution of a Myopia The Fifth Story A Sincere Friendship The Obedient Ones The Foreign Legion BACK OF THE DRAWER The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels Profile of Chosen Beings Inaugural Address Mineirinho COVERT JOY Covert Joy Remnants of Carnival Eat Up, My Son Forgiving God One Hundred Years of Forgiveness A Hope The Servant Boy in Pen and Ink A Tale of So Much Love The Waters of the World Involuntary Incarnation Two Stories My Way The First Kiss WHERE WERE YOU AT NIGHT In Search of a Dignity The Departure of the Train Dry Sketch of Horses Where Were You at Night Report on the Thing Manifesto of the City The Conjurings of Dona Frozina That's Where I'm Going Dead Man in the Sea at Urca Silence A Full Afternoon Such Gentleness Soul Storm Natural Life VISION OF SPLENDOR Brasília FINAL STORIES Beauty and the Beast or The Enormous Wound One Day Less Appendix: Useless Explanation Translator's Note Bibliographical Note Acknowledgments