Fantastic Metropolis

Last year, I turned mostly to classic literature, and found that most of the titles more than a decade—or even centuries—old could reveal clear fantastic intention from their authors. I’m definitely infected by fantasy, and it pleases me to read signs of it in novels or stories by authors of the past. So my list of favourites for last year is as follows:

• Aleph and Other Stories, Jorge Luis Borges
• Selected Short Stories, Edgar Allan Poe
• Medea, Euripides
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Russian fantastic short stories, from Pushkin to Zamiatin

Also a few modern fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction works:

• City, Alessandro Barico
• From the Dust Returned, Ray Bradbury
• Nobody’s Perfect: Selected Writings from the New Yorker, Anthony Lane
• Baudolino, Umberto Eco
• Universe in a Nutshell/Illustrated Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking