An officer demonstrates the machine that writes a condemned man's sentence into his back over twelve hours.
A universe of hexagonal galleries holding every possible 410-page book, nearly all of them gibberish.
John Difool, a class-R detective, and a crystal that can save the universe; Moebius and Jodorowsky.
The Library of Babel, the Garden of Forking Paths and Pierre Menard; Borges in seventeen stories.
A point that contains every other point, in a Buenos Aires cellar; Borges' second collection.
A novel you can read in two orders; Cortazar's Paris and Buenos Aires.
You, the reader, keep starting novels that break off; Calvino's game.
Marco Polo describes fifty-five cities to Kublai Khan, all of them Venice.
Bruno Schulz's Drohobycz turned into myth; the stories a Gestapo officer's bullet ended.
K. tries to reach the authorities in a snowbound village and never does; unfinished, mid-sentence.
A thirty-year-old is dragged back to school; Gombrowicz's grotesque about immaturity.
V-2 rockets, a lieutenant whose erections predict strikes and the end of the war; Pynchon's monster.
Josef K. is arrested for something nobody will name; the word Kafkaesque comes from here.
Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect and his family adjusts; Kafka in sixty pages.
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