Table of Contents

• Translator’s Preface
• Part One: Kundry
  • The Announced Visitor
  • In Dr. Aquiles’ Consultation Room
  • “Iván Ilých 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 marré 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 à 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

About the Author

Gustavo Corção was a journalist and wrote many works about Roman Catholicism.