Simply masterful...These clear, uncluttered translations are dreamlike.

The Review of Higher Education

Startlingly...life's universal themes are all here: the craving for erotic fulfillment, the fragility of love, the yearning for wealth, and the abruptness of death...these stories are rock-solid.

Publishers Weekly

One of the most distinctive and compelling voices of the early modernist movement is heard again in this elegant collection of nine urbane, perversely comic, deeply disturbing stories.

Kirkus Reviews

Margret Schaefer's fresh translation of nine stories and novellas brings most back into print for the first time in decades.

The Dallas Morning News