Translator's Preface
Part One: Kundry
The Announced Visitor
In Dr. Aquiles' Consultation Room
"IvAn IlYch Saw That He Was Dying and He Was in Continual Despair"
Old Deaths
Between Goethe and Voltaire
Am I Discovering, I Wonder, That the Soul Is Immortal?
The More They Demonstrate the Soul's Immortality, the Less I Believe in It
Pedreira Is Finishing His Book
Life Is but a Walking Shadow
Catarina, Where Did You Put My Childhood?
The Encounter in the Campo de Santana
There Is a Luciana
On a Dream Adriatic
Part Two: Burmese Rubies
My Roses
The General's Roses
The World Reduced to Atoms
Comical Errors
Dead Jealousies
The Coffee-Bar Waitress Who Stands All Day, de marrE deci
Merry Christmas!
My Volumes of Jules Verne
In the Blood
Gertrude's Earrings
Part Three: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Professor Leidenbrock's Training
On the Inside of Things
The Broken Clock
The Duel with Sirius
The Universe A double face
Jandira's Carnival
A Priest Went By
The Doctor's Visit
Blood Wedding Anniversary
The Depths of Subjectivity
The Man Who Says Farewell
Rosa, Rosae
The End of the World