Allskin

Allskin and Other Tales by Contemporary Czech Women is a 1998 anthology edited by Alexandra Büchler.

Editions

• Women in Translation: Seattle, 1998; ISBN 1-879679-11-6 (pbk)

Contents

• "Introduction" by Alexandra Büchler;
• "Allskin Dances on Tables" by Daniela Fischerová;
• "Far from the Tree" by Zuzana Brabcová;
• "The Woman from the Region of Tyre" by Tereza Boucková;
• "Théa" by Daniela Hodrová;
• "The Funeral" by Alexandra Berková;
• "What Nothing Looks Like" by Jana Cervenková;
• "Between Us Girls" by Eva Hauser;
• "E = mc2" by Alzbeta Serberová;
• "Talibe" by Iva Pekárková;
• "The Martyr of Love" by Eda Kriseová;
• "The Good New Times" by Lenka Procházková;
• "Dear Jirka ..." by Zdena Salivarová;
• "Joseph Stalin" by Zdena Tomin;
• "A Barbarian Woman in Captivity" by Vera Linhartová; and
• "Fragments and Likenesses" by Sylvie Richter.

Notes

Not entirely sf / fantasy, still many of these stories are relevant. "The first anthology of fiction by Czech women to appear in English ...." "Readers familiar with Czech literature in translation will recognize the characteristic features: its inclination toward the fantastic, the absurd, the grotesque and the surreal, its penchant for political allegory and satire, its sense of irony and black humor, its lopsided view of reality." ... "[The stories in this anthology] tend to draw on a much broader tradition of storytelling that encompasses myth, legend and fairy tale and on folk culture with its belief in magic and the supernatural." (from the Introduction)