Snapshots / created by Claudio Magris ; translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel.

The dove and the Two- Headed Eagle -- The Inn keeper and His War -- Unreliable Death -- Thirteen thousand eight hundred seventy nine Evenings -- At the Castelli Gallery -- Be With or Go With -- (Open?) Couple at the Conference -- Forget Colors; Sacred and Profane -- Losing Your Marbles -- A Crowd for No One -- Group Portrait with Sleeping Jurist -- We'll Talk -- The Bankers and the Devil -- Orphaned Embryos -- An Overturned Head of Medusa -- The Scourge of the 800 Number -- Benefits for Polygamists and Taxes on Bachelors -- Let the Little Children Come unto Me -- Pissing Against the Wind and Contra Legem -- The Menu of the Revolution -- On the Rocky Beach -- A New Writer: The Censor -- The Wall Will Last for Years . . . -- Limping Verses from the Hereafter -- The Stray and a Model -- At the Seashore -- The place Where the Heart Is Silent -- On the Tracks -- The Sacred Hours -- A Rose of the Blessed -- The Devil's Dung -- The Beautiful Summer -- Writing, Entry Prohibited -- Down with the Poor -- The Right Word in the Wrong Mouth -- Sea Lion -- Jens's Gravestone -- Mute Scenes of a Marriage -- Everything's All Right -- At the Window -- Frecciabianca -- Graffiti -- Advertising, a Long, Tedious Sermon -- The Rocky Beach of the Famous -- The sin of Acrimony -- Untranslatable -- Selfie.