Nanos Valaoritis. My Afterlife Guaranteed & Other Narratives. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1990. 88 p. <Prose>

ISBN 087262488 pbk; 9780872862487 pbk

From the copyright page: "Some of these narratives have been collected in these Greek publications of Nanos Valaoritis' work: Central Arcade, Athens, 1958; Some Women, Themelio Press, Athens, 1982; Poems (vol. I), Ypsilon Press, Athens, 1983; and The Talking Monkey, Aigokeros Press, Athens, 1986."

Of the texts written in Greek the following were translated by Mary Kitroeff: "Procrustes" (pp. 1-5); "Hermes and Hermione" (pp. 6-7); "Penthesileia" (p. 8); "Coup d'Etat" (p. 44); "The Way Things Go" (pp. 45-46); "The Triumph of Decadence" (pp. 47-49); "Three Problems of the Sea" (pp. 56-57); "The Black Sun" (p. 60).

Translated by Lennart Bruce (from Swedish): "Transubstantiation" (pp. 58-59).

Translated by Allegro Shartz: "Who We Are" (pp. 9-10); "Gloomy Reality" (pp. 42-43); "The Windows of Genius" (pp. 50-51); "The Games of the Circle" (pp. 52-53); "The Thieves" (pp. 54-55); "The Train" (p. 62); "The Tree of Happiness" (pp. 63-68); "The Bride" (pp. 71-72).

Translated by the author: "How I Met Ionesco" (pp. 21-22); "Borisofski's Lair" (pp. 40-41).

The other narratives in this book were written in English.

The Greek edition was published subsequently: Η ζωή μου μετά θάνατον εγγυημένη (Αθήνα: Νεφέλη, 1993).