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

• 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 deciMerry 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 faceJandira’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