Table of Contents

Eduardo Acevedo Diaz:: "Desde el tronco del Ombu" / "From the Trunk of the Ombu Tree" (1902) Horacio Quiroga :: "La serpiente de cascabel" / "The Rattlesnake" (1906) Leopoldo Lugones :: "Los pastorcitos" / "The Young Shepherds" (1916) Vicente Blasco Ibanez :: "El monstruo" / "The Monster" (1921) Jose de la Cuadra :: "Mientras el sol se pone" / "While the Sun Sets" (1926) Rosa Chacel :: "Chinina-Migone" / "Chinina-Migone" (1928) Mario Benedetti :: "Como siempre" / "As Always" (1947) Silvina Ocampo :: "Fragmentos del libro invisible" / "Fragments of the Invisible Book" (1948) Julio Ramon Ribeyro :: "Por las azoteas" / "Over the Rooftops" (1958) Augusto Roa Bastos :: "El pais donde los ninos no querian nacer" / "The Country Where the Children Did Not Want to Be Born" (unknown) Gloria Guardia :: "Otra vez Bach" / "Once Again Bach" (1983) Paloma Diaz-Mas :: "En busca de un retrato" / "In Search of a Portrait" (1988) Jose Maria Merino :: "Tres documentos sobre la locura de J.L.B." / "Three Documents about the Insanity of J.L.B." (1989) Enrique Jaramillo Levi :: "La ilusion" / "The Illusion" (1998)