White Fire: Further Fantastic Literature

Fantastic Literature deals with what can be best defined as the impossible seeping into the possible, what Wallace Stevens calls “black water breaking into reality” wrote Alberto Manguel in his introduction to the original BLACK WATER.

Here, in WHITE FIRE, he has again assembled an awe-inspiring array of world writers – Gabriel García Márquez, V.S. Naipaul, Mervyn Peake, Julian Barnes, Günter Grass, de Lampedusa and many more – with a range of stories that extends not only far and wide but also deep.